<p>I'm looking to apply to top law schools that offer evening classes - as I plan to maintain a day job during law school. From what I've gathered, most top law schools do not have special part-time programs. However, do schools like Columbia, NYU, Stanford, etc. offer a sufficient amount of evening/night classes that one can finish the degree program while maintaining a day job? Is this possible?</p>
<p>Columbia says [no[/url</a>]. I couldn’t find anything for NYU or Stanford, so I decided to find any good law school with a part-time program…</p>
<p>You can try [url=<a href=“http://www.law.georgetown.edu/curriculum/jdprog.cfm]Georgetown[/url”>http://www.law.georgetown.edu/curriculum/jdprog.cfm]Georgetown[/url</a>], [url=<a href=“http://www.law.gwu.edu/Admissions/JD/Pages/FT_PT.aspx]George”>http://www.law.gwu.edu/Admissions/JD/Pages/FT_PT.aspx]George</a> Washington](<a href=“http://www.law.columbia.edu/jd_applicants/faqs/academic]no[/url”>http://www.law.columbia.edu/jd_applicants/faqs/academic) ,[Fordham</a> U](<a href=“http://www.fordham.edu/]Fordham”>http://www.fordham.edu/), and [George</a> Mason](<a href=“http://www.law.gmu.edu/]George”>http://www.law.gmu.edu/).</p>
<p>right but the question I am asking is that there must be some courses at all law schools that are schedule late at night/evening. Thus, would it be possible to complete the law program by taking these courses?</p>
<p>You don’t get to choose your 1L classes, and probably all of them will be during the day. Unless you’re in a part-time program, and Georgetown is the only T14 school with one.</p>
<p>You can’t do law school at your own pace. In other words, you can’t go to law school half-time and graduate in six years. It’s not allowed. </p>
<p>I think that’s what you are contemplating, if I understand your message. Part-time is really three-quarters time, since you have to finish all the courses you would normally take in three years in four. You can’t take less than that load. You can “drop out” and return after a leave of absence. You can’t work full time and take a couple of courses until you finish a JD.</p>
<p>So, in answer to your question, it’s NOT possible because not ALL of the first year courses you are required to take during your first year will be offered at night UNLESS you attend a law school with an official part-time program…</p>
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<p>Try not to treat a law school with no evening program as if it did have one. I would really recommend using the links that I posted to start with: [including</a> this short list](<a href=“http://www.law-school.ws/]including”>http://www.law-school.ws/) and enroll in an actual, honest-to-God evening program instead of trying to schedule everything in the evening because that’s just going to ruin your life, get you fired, make your hair fall out, and end any relationship you have with anyone.</p>
<p>maybe naive, but i was planning on taking 2 classes per semester, enroll in all the summer sessions, and graduate in 4 or 5 years. I would get out of my day job at around 5:00, which is early. If they do offer courses in the evening, not sure why this wouldnt be possible.</p>
<p>Generally, the aim for summers between law school years is to have a law-related job.</p>
<p>game- i don’t think you can do it that way. Hubby did law school at night many years ago and worked full time. I believe there is a prescibed schedule you have to follow.<br>
It’s tough to have a full time job unless you are lucky enough to have a low pressure job and can work flex time hours and be outta work by 4:00PM or so. </p>
<p>Most of the people I know who did part time law school either were teachers or gov’t workers who could take advantage of “flex-time” work hours or early departures.<br>
My d is still considering a part-time program so she could continue working at her job- but she would definitely reduce her hours at work to 15 to 20 hours/week. </p>
<p>Georgetown-GW-George Mason-Fordham-Brooklyn definitely have part time programs. I believe Cardoza does too and I am sure there are a few others in the NYC area.
If I remember correctly hubby had evening classes (and they could have started as early as 5:00PM) at least 4 nights a week.
I do not think there is any program that will just allow you to take one or two courses a semester. In fact I’m sure of it!</p>
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<p>You have no control over your 1L schedule, and the classes will probably all be during the day (well before 5). The school will not let you take just two courses a semester, either.</p>
<p>Yeah, you really really have to go to a school with an official evening program or part-time program, because those are the only ones who are structured in a way that will accommodate your job without you getting fired for not coming to work anymore. Trying to take two classes per semester won’t work at any law school I’ve ever heard of.</p>
<p>I believe ABA requires full-time JD students to graduate within… four years, is it?</p>
<p>Does anyone know any graduate degree programs that are evening/night or are somehow accommodating to an individual working full-time?</p>
<p>The ABA standards for accreditation do not permit this, so no ABA-accredited law school will permit you to do what you contemplate. It’s POSSIBLE–I don’t claim to know–that there is some non-ABA accredited law school that permits this, but be aware that, if so, attending a non-ABA accredited law school will severely limit the number of states which will permit you to take the bar exam and the kinds of jobs you can get. </p>
<p>Anyway, in trying to figure out if there are any law schools which would permit you to do this, you can skip all of those with ABA accreditation.</p>
<p>As the others have said, you need to look at a school with a committed evening program. I do not know if it meets your other criteria but University of Maryland has an evening program.</p>
<p>[Enrollment</a> Options](<a href=“http://www.law.umaryland.edu/prospective/enrollment/]Enrollment”>http://www.law.umaryland.edu/prospective/enrollment/)</p>
<p>Georgetown and GW have evening programs. I believe Georgetown is the highest-ranked law school with such a program.</p>
<p>A person wanting to apply to law school should be smart enough to contact the schools you mentioned to get this information. You obviously have access to the internet. A simple search on their web page will reveal everything you want to know. Don’t be so lazy.</p>
<p>Yea, I would have to agree with tasama. I mean, are you really going to base your decision on the words of those on here, anyway, without looking it up yourself? I doubt it. So why ask the questions in the first place?</p>
<p>This thread is almost three years old. Not sure what the point is of telling someone they’re lazy this long after the fact!</p>