Are you a finshed lawyer/attorney after 4 years of lawschool or are you something else?Do you have to study more to become one?
2007-08-28 08:49:38 · 21 answers · asked by cbkingone 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
You can have a law degree and still not be a lawyer. You still have to take and pass the bar exam for your state.
P.S. Law school is a 3 year full time program.
2007-08-28 08:55:18 · answer #1 · answered by Bill 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are you ready for the correct answer? Most lawyers go to law school for either 3 or 4 years depending on whether or not they go to a full-time school.
Fact: You do not have to obtain a 4 year undergraduate degree to go to law school. Many law schools are unaccreditied meaning that they are not recognized by the American Bar Association, however they are authorized to educate you for a JD (Doctor of Jurispurdence).
Fact: You do not have to have an undergraduate degree or attend or even graduate from law school to become a lawyer. You can apprentice to become a lawyer and a qualifing lawyer can sign off for you to take the bar exam.
Fact: To become a lawyer (license by a state to practice law) you must pass that state's bar exam, pass their background requirements, and pass the state's ethic's exam, and lastly be sworn in by a qualifiying judge. Once these things are completed you are a lawyer.
2007-08-28 09:58:48 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must pass the bar exam in order to become available to be a bona fide lawyer. You may call yourself that, because you went to law school. But I wouldn't go around telling people you're a lawyer until you get a job as a lawyer.
It's like graduating with a business major. Legitimately, you're a business-man, but you can apply for jobs you think fit your major and you would become that job. With a business major you can become a CEO, and you would then be called a CEO.
It's the same with law school and being a lawyer. You can become a politician and then have a job in the white house as, say, district attorney. Then you would be known as such.
You can call yourself a lawyer after law school, but I'd just call yourself a law school graduate rather than a lawyer. A lawyer usually entitles the fact that you're employed in such a position.
2007-08-28 08:57:50 · answer #3 · answered by My Name Doesn't Fit Here 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
After lawschool and after you pass the bar exam you'll be a lawyer
2007-08-28 08:53:15 · answer #4 · answered by misbotta 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
4 years of college and 3 - 4 years of law school. Then you take the exams. If you pass, you become a lawyer.
2007-08-28 08:53:42 · answer #5 · answered by Wiser1 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
After, usually 3 years of successfully completing your J.D. you are able to do some stuff, but you are not a lawyer until passed your state bar exam and get a license.
2007-08-28 08:55:20 · answer #6 · answered by NY PTK 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And pass the bar exam. Then you're a lawyer and subject to all the lawyer jokes.
2007-08-28 08:54:43 · answer #7 · answered by JB 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not an accredited lawyer who can practice in a court of law until you have taken the state bar exam, which from what I heard from my friends is a grueling and hellish exam. More people fail it the first time than pass it!
2007-08-28 08:55:56 · answer #8 · answered by Rebecca W 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're a lawyer after you pass the bar in whatever state you want to be a lawyer in.
2007-08-28 08:54:00 · answer #9 · answered by Meichelle 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most states require you to pass the BAR exam after schooling.
Some states ONLY require you to pass the bar exam.
2007-08-28 08:56:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋