Online Law Degree: Viable Option or Utopian Dream?
By Daniel June
The prospect of an online law school seems charming: you wouldn't have to relocate to a law school, you'd save heaps over the more than $100,000 typical law schools tuition, and you could come to "class" in your pajamas. Nevertheless, though this industry is booming in other fields, it runs into a unique set of problems with potential JDs.
Accreditation is the big thing. Not a single Online J.D. program is accredited, and what this means is that you have almost no other choice but to take the California bar exam, as California is the only state that allows correspondence grads to sit in on the exam. Getting any other state to let you sit in would be tricky or maybe even impossible. Once you've passed the California Bar, some states will then let you take their own bar, but others won't. You might have to practice law in California for a few years before you are licensed to transfer. So the entire advantage of correspondence school being "convenient" is made terribly inconvenient by the ABA.
What's worse, you might lose out on the Socratic teaching method that has been such an important part of legal teaching. There are two kinds of online classes, Asynchronous and Synchronous. Asynchronous means that you and your professor are accessing the web at different times; it gives you the advantage of showing up to "class" whenever you feel like it. But then you won't have the professor student interaction that you would with synchronous technology. After all, law is much more than passing the Bar. You have to do more than hack at a computer all night: you have to negotiate with judges, lawyers, and clients; it is unclear how internet junkies will learn how to network and make connections with real life people -- the kind they would be working for -- if they are sitting in a dark room at home listening to techno while sitting in "class."
Nevertheless, Donna Skibbe is optimistic. She is a spokesperson for Concord Law School of Kaplan University, the largest online law school, founded in 1998 with its first graduating class in 2003. She says "We live in a world where technology has become increasingly entrenched in corporate and social environments. More and more traditional law schools are providing online offerings to meet student demand. So, we believe that our innovative approach to legal education will one day be the norm, rather than the exception." It sounds hopeful, but then again, she's selling something.
The fact is the field is uber-competetive right now, and the JD whose transcripts come from an online university will stand out -- in the wrong way. Employers may share the sentiment of Donald Polden, dean of the Santa Clara University School of Law. "There's growing comfort with [online education] as a useful of offering a part of the law school curriculum. [But] for a high quality program, you have to have students together because of much of learning happens in that interaction in the classroom space."
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