You can not go to law school with a high school diploma – you need to get a bachelor’s degree (in anything) first.

1) online degrees are not respected? source that please. I’m thinking the graduate degrees at Harvard, UMass, Boston, et al are pretty well respected. How about Fla State, SUNY, UCLA and the other state U’s… hmmmm why are all of these famous colleges offering degrees online? Could it be that it works?

2) there are a couple colleges offering degrees in law (JD) online but they only qualify for the bar in California and the pass rates are pretty low. They do exist though. Concord Law School is one.

Now — here is the bad news. Online universities are not well respected. Your chances of getting into a law school with a degree from an online university are minimal.

Now for some good news. You don’t need a law degree to practice law in California, Maine or Virginia. But now for some more bad news. Those states have the toughest Bar exams — and it is hard to pass them without going to a good law school.

Your plan is flawed — because it involves doing things the easy way. If you want to become a lawyer, you should go to the best college and law school that you can go to. Of course, if you don’t want to become a GOOD lawyer, take the easier route.

Law degrees are doctoral degrees, but they are never called doctor. I am not sure way, I think it is because they don’t have to do dissertations like academic programs. So, all it you could get it 3 to 5 years you could get your J.D. Law degrees with dissertations are J.S.D. or PhD.

You do need to have a four year college degree from an accredited university, and then you have to pass the exam in a state for a license to practice law.