| Whatever your academic standing, career status, or | | | | gives you leverage on higher salaries and better |
| professional objective, you can enroll today and begin | | | | positions. Several prestigious online law schools offer |
| studying for a law degree online. | | | | specialized programs focused on law and technology; |
| You may choose a traditional law school curriculum | | | | other programs focus on criminal justice for law |
| that leads to your Juris Doctor(JD) degree and | | | | enforcement officers. Students in these programs |
| prepares you for entry to the bar. The internet offers | | | | complete the demanding first-year curriculum required |
| such a wife array of legal studies, though, you may | | | | of all law students, learning the law's fundamentals. |
| choose exactly the legal curriculum that suits your | | | | After the first year, though, EJD students develop |
| needs and wishes. For undergraduates eager to | | | | courses of study dovetailed with their jobs' |
| attend one of the nation's elite law schools, earning a | | | | requirements. Adapted to the demands of working |
| degree in criminal justice at an online university radically | | | | professionals, these programs require only part-time |
| reduces costs and dramatically speeds progress to a | | | | registration, and most students complete their degree |
| diploma. | | | | requirements in three years instead of four. |
| Studying in intensive online programs, many people | | | | At first glance, the hierarchy of law degrees may |
| complete their bachelors' degrees in twenty-four to | | | | seem a little bit confusing, because "Master" comes |
| thirty-six months. For other students interested in the | | | | before "Doctor' in most other disciplines and specialties. |
| legal profession but reluctant about studying for | | | | In law, however, Doctor precedes Master. If you |
| admission to the bar, online certification programs lead | | | | already hold a Juris Doctor degree and seek |
| to rewarding careers as paralegals and legal | | | | advanced training in a legal specialty, you may pursue |
| researchers. For many working professionals, study at | | | | a Master of Laws in an online program. Most Master |
| an online law school represents an inexpensive, | | | | of Laws students already have successful practices, |
| efficient alternative to the high cost and crushing | | | | but they seek strategic and tactical advantage from |
| competition characteristic of most traditional law | | | | advanced study. Especially attorneys in corporate |
| schools. | | | | practice enhance their credentials with Master of |
| If you work in a field that requires extensive command | | | | Laws degrees in financial services, international |
| of the law-human relations, accounting, or real estate, | | | | taxation, compliance and risk management, wealth |
| for example-look into online programs that lead to | | | | management, United States taxation, or bankruptcy |
| "Executive Juris Doctor" (EJD) degrees. An EJD | | | | and restructuring. |
| certifies your command of a legal specialty, and it | | | | |