Concord Law School

Concord Law School, using state-of-the-art

technology and the Internet, delivers a sound

program of legal education that is accessible and

affordable. Concord’s program helps careerfocused learners to achieve their personal and professional goals. In doing so, the program uniquely serves the needs of the legal profession and the public interest.

Concord Law School is the first institution to offer a Juris Doctor (JD) degree earned wholly online via state-of-the-art technology. With the latest Internet-adaptive technologies, the Concord program offers excellent course instruction combined with maximum flexibility, specifically designed to fit into today s busy lifestyles. Most people cannot afford the time and resources required to make higher education their only priority. Concord understands this and provides the perfect platform to make higher education accessible for individuals with the ability and motivation to succeed.

Concord provides a rigorous and comprehensive legal education with a personalized curriculum and study program leading to a Juris Doctor (JD) degree or an Executive JDSM. Instruction is both highly theoretical and highly practical, emphasizing a critical understanding of how law functions in society as well as a practical knowledge of how lawyers function within the legal system.

Since opening in the fall of 1998, Concord has pioneered the delivery of high quality legal education on the Internet. The school serves working professionals, family caretakers, and others whose circumstances may prevent them from pursuing a legal education at a fixed facility law school. The typical student is in his or her mid-career with an undergraduate GPA of 3.0. More than 1,800 students are currently enrolled at Concord, including alumni of such prestigious universities as Columbia, Harvard, Yale, MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, Duke, and the University of Chicago. More than one third of the students already hold advanced degrees. Students hail from all U.S. states and 13 other countries and 78 percent reside outside of California.

Concord s diverse student body includes: educators, small business owners, CEOs, physicians, bankers, pilots, police officers, retired and active military officers, city planners, nurses, compliance analysts, dentists, consultants, accountants, sales representatives, engineers, real estate developers, stay-at-home parents, family caregivers, and others whose family and/or work obligations have made Concord Law School the right choice for them.

The legal education at Concord is rigorous and dynamic. The curriculum corresponds to that in most leading U.S. law schools. Unlike most of its fixed facility counterparts, however, Concord utilizes the latest Internet technologies to communicate its material and facilitate the learning process.

Casebooks and other textbooks are those regularly used at fixed facility campuses nationwide. Classroom instruction is replicated through an innovative combination of video lectures from nationally renowned legal scholars, professor-led discussion groups delivered over the Internet and intensive individual feedback from professor to student. Students work through assignments similar to those required in a traditional law school setting with the convenience of submitting them online. Concord s technology facilitates the availability of a wide array of testing materials appropriate for those who later seek admission to the bar.

The Law School curriculum is available to Concord students over the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week from any part of the globe. Students set their own pace and speed within a structured learning system developed by legal education experts.

Concord Law School is the first law school to make extensive use of distance learning techniques and tools, including the Internet. Concord students learn the same skills and substance as those attending a traditional law school, but they use modern tools to access the education. Students study where and when they wish, without the rigid location demands and class schedules imposed by fixed-facility schools.

Concord s Deans, faculty and visiting lecturers have merged a traditional curriculum with the advantages of Internet-based education to produce a program that offers maximum flexibility while accomplishing the goals of a high quality legal education.

What is a typical day like at Concord? Students may attend a video lecture or professor-led chat room, read caselaw offline, meet with fellow students in a discussion group, or take quizzes and submit essays for grading online. Students are guided through the curriculum, but are free to custom-tailor their law studies to fit their busy lifestyles.

The degree programs at Concord are part-time programs designed to accommodate the schedules of working adults. Students in the Juris Doctor program must complete 92 semester units in four years. Each academic year at Concord Law School consists of 48-51 consecutive weeks and is in accordance with the rules of the California Committee of Bar Examiners. On average, students in the JD program can expect to study 20 hours per week.

School name: Concord Law School

Address: 10866 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1200

Zip & city: CA 90024 California

Phone: 800-439-4794