Reading Law
The opportunity to become a lawyer without graduating law school, called "reading law", is still available in seven U.S. states (California, Maine, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming) through various apprenticeship programs.
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1880Read more about this topic: Country Lawyer
Famous quotes containing the words reading and/or law:
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)
“The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counterauthority to the law.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)