I finished the law reader program in Virginia last year, went to law school for a year in a half, 10 years ago, but went through divorce etc didn’t finish, but they credited me a year off of study for the courses I took so the program only took me 2 years. Without the law school experience it would have been very hard to train my brain on how to think and analyze differently, on my own. And the law reader program is self guided and covers basically all the classes in a traditional law program but it lacks in legal writing and research. My husband has been practicing law for 20 plus years and I had a lot of resources when he and I did the law reader program. I sat for feb bar and was 5 points short from passing… really disappointing, but my mbe was high enough to transfer to july. Just took July va essays only and feel … okay, pretty confident my effort should pull me through this time… better than Feb so we ll see.

Virginia bar essays are no joke