the mother-in-law school of law

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<p>Interesting article about alternative legal education. Apparently there are still four states where aspiring lawyers can study/apprentice for a prescribed number of years under the supervision of an experienced attorney rather than attend law school. They must, of course, still pass the bar exam.</p>

<p>The article focuses on one young woman in Virginia who has been pursuing this path under the direction of her mother-in-law. It’s not an easy one–few attempt it and even fewer succeed, but one of the few recent successes in Virginia was this woman’s sister-in-law, who also studied under the direction of their mother-in-law.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/09/21/unschooled.lawyers.ap/index.html[/url]”>http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/09/21/unschooled.lawyers.ap/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It must make for an interesting family dynamic.</p>

<p>EDIT: On careful re-reading, it appears that the mother-in-law herself also pursued an alternative legal education—she attended the husband-school-of-law.</p>

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<p>well, I think if I had to teach my Ds, we would end up in fist-d-cuffs…I won’t even teach her to drive until she has had a few lessons by a third party…</p>