I am a 14 year old turning into 15 who wants to be a family lawyer. i am tired of going to a school where i learn nothin to become a family lawyer. i am of course in high school. the thing is that my dad wants to leave san diego and go to LA or farther i dunno. i was wondering if anyone knows if there is a home school teacher that teaches students who wants to be a lawyer?? its cuz ok i dont want to leave my friends but the thing is that i wanna become a lawyer. i dont want to move but my dad is making me. i need help please. is there such thing as home schooling to become a laywer if not please tell me if there is a high school you know that teaches you to become a lawyer.?.
2007-12-02 08:59:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
If you are asking if you can become a lawyer if you are home schooled, yes. You still have to take all of the high school requirements though, home schooled or not. You also need to test well on the SAT and the ACT tests and what ever college placement tests are given. That means knowing grammar, math, and all those other courses they want you to learn.
2007-12-02 09:15:38 · answer #1 · answered by Melissa C 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Just takes this into your own hands. Find a local lawyer who will help you find out what you need to study in order to become what you want to do. Call up local law offices until you find domeone who will mentor you in this way. I guarantee some wil turn you away but I also guarantee you'll find one who will be thrilled to see a 14 year old with a real passion for family law and will at least sit down with you for a chat.
After you find out what skills and such are critical, get some help in planning a homeschool curriculum tailored to those skills. This will take reearch skills (exactly the kids of research skills so important in practicing law) and long hours but it can be done. Connect with online homeschool message boards and email lists.
Also, start looking at different colleges and what they require of homeschool applicants. A lot of schools now view homeschoolers as an asset and actively recruit them. How impressed would one of those schools be with an applicant who was not only homeschooled but had sought out a mentor AND designed their own curriculum?
People will tell you to stay inside the little box in order to get to where you want to go and granted, that works for a lot of people, but it's not the only way and it's not even the best way.
Good luck and best wishes!!!
2007-12-02 11:22:01 · answer #2 · answered by Dawn A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Others have already explained the process and steps.
But, there is no reason you cannot explore this starting now.
Did you know that the Home School Legal Defense Association was started by former homeschool students who are now attorneys? They have also started a Liberal Arts college called Patrick Henry College. Graduates from that school have been admitted to Harvard School of Law and others.
Patrick Henry offers opportunities for homeschool students to learn a little about the law. This coming spring semester they are offering a U. S. Constitutional Law course by distance learning. You would earn a certificate of completion. This is a little pricey ...
There are things you can do on your own to explore this career interest. Have you read the U. S. Constitution? Many cities also have Legal Aid non-profit organizations and are always in need of volunteers (I did this myself for a while)... You may be asked to help clean up, file papers or who knows what but you will be interacting with family law attorneys (that is the majority of cases taken by Legal Aid places from my little bit of experience).
Is your motivation driven by a disagreement with your dad and your pending move? You probably won't like what I am about to say... but, you need to respect your dad's decision and if it is bothering you so terribly, try talking calmly to him. Explain your anguish and how upset you are with moving. Maybe he can help you understand why the move is necessary or at least be a bit sympathetic to your angst.
2007-12-02 15:56:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe in some states (Virginia is one) it is still possible to become a lawyer by "reading the law" - in other words learning the law from an existing lawyer and passing the bar exam. You'll have to look into this further yourself, but that is the first step in becoming a homeschooler, taking your own education in your own hands and running with it.
Good luck!
2007-12-02 13:16:04 · answer #4 · answered by NJRoadie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes and NO
You most certainly can be homeschooled through High School and then become a lawyer. You will need to attend college and law school after High School. Go to http://www.hslda.org/highschool/college.asp to find out more about how High Schoolers get into college.
Also go to http://www.hslda.org/highschool/default.asp for more general information about homeschooling through High School.
However, there is not a High School that teaches you to be Lawyer, you always learn that in college and law school.
2007-12-03 01:28:06 · answer #5 · answered by Thrice Blessed 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. In fact my son was homeschooled until college and is now a psychologist, so of course you can go on to a highly respected profession that will earn you a ton of money. Ignore the fist answer-the person who wrote it is anti-homeschool and gave you an answer to sway your opinion to reflect his own rather than to help you come up with the option that is best for you. High school is not the place to do this.....if you homeschool you can customize your curriculum to even INCLUDE a course on law, and anything else you may be interested in. You just can't DO that in public school. In homeschool you would even have time to maybe get a small part time job AT AN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE-if public school a part time job severely interferes with the time you have to deticate to homework and study.
2007-12-02 09:51:04 · answer #6 · answered by Sunny And '74 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
You might want to do some career exploring online before you think you can study in high school to become a lawyer.
Here's how it usually works:
You finish high school and get your diploma, do your SATs.
You apply to a respected college and do an undergraduate degree in any field you choose.
You then do your LSAT and apply to law school.
These are the steps because you HAVE to be able to demonstrate a certain ability in learning, thinking and writing before you take on the demanding studying required of lawyers.
2007-12-02 10:05:22 · answer #7 · answered by glurpy 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
That's a shame, you don't like finance It's poised to be one of the top 10 careers in most demand in the next few decades People are going to be retiring with large 401ks and not knowing what to do with them ^ stable future to say the least Family law - you have to deal with people that can barely afford to pay you It may be rewarding, but it will not earn you the income finance might
2016-04-07 04:11:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A home schooled student can become anything he/she would like to be.
You just have to finish your home school program; study for, and get a decent score on the SAT/ACT's; apply at the college of your choice, or law school, and go for it.
Good Luck.
2007-12-03 01:59:38 · answer #9 · answered by busymom 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no
Law is taught in graduate school after you finish high school and college.
That's the way it works.
You need a primary education in language, math, science, history and poltics.
See, the law deals with all of that.
So you need a foundation in that.
Law is all about reading books, reseraching and understandind what you read.
Law is about writing a paper that impresses a Judge who has a Doctorate Degree and 10-20 years experience in law.
School is about impressing your teachers with the work you do and law school WANTS you to have a 16 year background doing that.
They figure after 16 years of impressing teachers enough to get As and Bs and 4 years of training in law you can protect people with your skills.
Once upon a time in the 1970s or 1980s two parents, both posssesing college degrees, kept their kid at home in Oregon, I believe, Rural Oregon and taught him at home.
The state scocial services and school system didn't like that so they attempted to stop them legally, up to and including the threat of arresting them
A lawyer took on the state of Oregon, the Governor, the Board of Education, the Local School System, the local Mayor, the Teachers Union and won the right for them to teach their kid at home.
That was the start of the formal homeschool movmenet in America
And it took strong skills from a lawyer fighting city hall, which is something most lawyers will tell you not to do, because you usually can't win
That lawyer had to convince a Judge the State, the Education Department, the Governor, the Mayor and the Social Services department were not righter than the parents.
2007-12-02 10:28:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋