On 02/19/2015 10:09 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> There was no lying. I was trying to get an AA certificate in legal
> assisting. Do you think such a certificate would come to me without
> taking any law courses? This was a new program when I went to college
> and they told me that so far nobody had graduated from it but that they
> had to warn me that I would not be able to take any law courses for 5
> years with the way things had so far played out.
>
> I don't lie for sport and I just don't lie! I might get things wrong
> sometimes. We all do. But I certainly do not lie.

This doesn't apply to Julie, since she lives elsewhere, but in
California, you don't have to go to law school to be a lawyer. As a
matter of fact, you don't even have to go to school. You *do*, however,
have to pass the state bar exam, which is extremely tough. Every time
it's given, 5 out of 6 people fail. However, I have known a couple of
people that eventually passed after self-study only. One was a railroad
property manager and the other was a timber worker that wanted a better
life. Neither volunteered how many tries it took, but you get unlimited
tries and only have to pass once.