The New Lawyer Supplement
May 21, 2014
More lawyers opting to take bar without attending law school
Taking the bar without attending law school may gain popularity in a time of galloping law school tuition and graduate debt.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The first thing San Francisco sole practitioner Patrick T. Nakao tells new clients is that he isn't a normal attorney.
"I didn't go to law school," he tells them. "I want you to know."
Nakao is one of a relative handful of lawyers admitted to practice in California through "reading the law," or what the State Bar calls its Law Office Study Program...
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