Programs range from 2-year courses of study where students earn approximately 60-70 credits and an Associate's Degree to 4-year degrees where paralegal education is the major course of study. A few institutions even offer graduate/master's degree programs in this area of work, combining legal administration with paralegal studies. Entrance requirements for these programs are much the same as for any other higher education course of study.
Yes, but you still need to go to law school. Being a paralegal doesn't make someone eligible to take the bar exam of a state.
you have to go to law school and or pass the bar exam for the state where you want to practice.
There is not a requirement to take the bar exam. You can complete your degree and search for employment. You cannot practice law, however, without passing the exam and/or being admitted to the bar.
No he didn't have to take the bar exam
A Bar exam is required only as a requisite to practice law in that state - I know of no other reason one would have to take a Bar exam.
No. Law school graduation is required first. After that comes the bar exam.
There is no limit to the number of times you can take the Texas bar exam, but you must wait three months between exam administrations.
Most states have two requirements to become licensed. You have to take the Professional Responsibility Exam and the Bar exam for your jurisdiction. Some areas of law require an additional bar exam, such as the patent bar.
"Yes. You have to pay to take the state bar exam in every state that you take it in, and have the proper schooling to even register to take it. Even if you don't pass."
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A law clerk is usually a law student, either in or finished with law school, waiting to take or receive passage of the Bar, working (usually writing or doing research) for another, already licensed attorney. In California, the terms "legal assistant" and "paralegal" are interchangeable in the Business and Professions Code. A "paralegal" is an entirely different animal to a "law clerk". Paralegals (usually) have not been to law school and do not qualify to take the Bar Exam.