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100% ONLINE
Our curriculum is delivered through user-friendly education technologies such as a student learning center, live-streaming video, and interactive chat rooms and discussion boards. Law students can join live online classrooms and interact with their professor and peers in real time.
CONNECTED
Students can access online discussion forums for additional student and faculty interaction. Want to meet your professors in person? For students local to Los Angeles, coming to lecture in person is another option, though not a requirement.
FLEXIBLE
To make law school accessible to working professionals, all recordings of live online sessions are available for review after live presentation has occurred, 24/7. Missing a class is not an issue—you can view the recorded lecture and use the recording for review later during your course.
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A JURIS DOCTOR?
PRACTICE LAW
After graduation from the Juris Doctor program, students are eligible to sit for the California Bar Examination. Upon successful completion of the California Bar Examination, the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam, meeting all applicable moral character requirements and not being in arrears with family support obligations, Juris Doctor graduates can become members of the State Bar of California and be eligible to practice in California and Federal courts.
GAIN LEGAL SKILLS FOR RUNNING A BUSINESS
Adding a J.D. degree will help you gain legal skills for future endeavors in business administration and management, whether through study of contracts, corporations, evidence or legal research and writing. Equip yourself to be the business leader who can help your team through legal challenges.
LEARN THE LAW TO HELP OTHERS
Communities need legal services, but may not have available options in the legal services market that are realistic for their resources. Legal professionals who are interested in making a difference can use their education to meet needs that otherwise go unaddressed by working with organizations on policy research and advocacy, pro bono volunteering or on-the-ground legal assistance.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
- Understand the theories and principles of law, their qualifications and limitations, and their relationships to each other.
- Effectively evaluate possible legal issues in personal and professional situations.
- Engage in legal analysis and problem solving.
- Develop effective and preventive legal strategies.
- Communicate legal issues in a thorough, organized, and persuasive manner.
FLEXIBLE & PRACTICAL
- ALU’s authority to grant the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, which qualifies graduates to take the California Bar Examination and obtain admission to the practice of law in California is through registration with the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California in the unaccredited distance learning school category. ALU students must pass the California First Year Law Students’ Examination (FYLSX, commonly referred to as the “Baby Bar”) at the end of their first year of study.
- Abraham Lincoln University is accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC). The Distance Education Accrediting Commission is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency.
"ALU is not traditional. It adapts to the student rather than requiring the student to adapt to it. After graduation from ALU, I opened my own firm. I work for hundreds of clients now, and frankly it's a heck of a lot of fun being a lawyer."
-- Johnathan Kramer