Legal Education
Mass. State Bar Admits 1st Graduate of Online Law School
Posted Jun 26, 2009, 10:29 am CST
By Martha Neil
For the first time ever, a graduate of an Internet-based law school has been admitted to practice in Massachusetts.
Ross Mitchell was sworn in June 22, reports the National Law Journal. He earned his juris doctor degree at Concord Law School, which offers law classes online rather than in a bricks-and-mortar classroom.
As discussed in an earlier ABAJournal.com post, Mitchell successfully filed suit against the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts to win permission last year to take the Massachusetts bar.
"I don't plan to hang out a shingle per se," Mitchell, who works out of Newton, Mass., as a computer consultant, tells the legal publication. "What I see myself doing is pretty much making myself available to take on interesting projects you need to be lawyer to do."
Additional coverage:
Boston Herald: "Web degree no bar for this lawyer"
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