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Every state but California requires lawyers to graduate from an accredited law school and to pass the bar exam. In California, however, 60 college credits and 864 hours per year of correspondence law classes (not accredited) enable you to qualify to take the bar. After practicing law in California for five to seven years, you can then sit for the bar in other states.

While none are accredited (and thus not useful except in California), there are online law schools. Some of the better known schools include Concord Law School and the Abraham Lincoln University School of Law (see resource list for more).

The LL.M degree is a post graduate degree for those that have finished law school and want a specialization. These degrees are possible online, including from ABA-approved schools like NYU. More and more schools are putting LL.M degrees online.

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While many law schools are accredited by the American Bar Association, which presently accredits 200 institutions throughout the United States, schools are.

For a law school to be accredited by the ABA, it must adhere to the educational standards of the ABA. The Accreditation.