Tonto's Tavern:
The only 2 ways to change any gov. ;
1. Revolution if they're too corrupt
2. Work from the inside
7 U.S. states don’t need law school or a college degree to become a lawyer:
CA ME NY VA VT WA WY
California;
Maine;
New York;
Vermont;
Virginia;
Washington;
Wyoming.
Personal Experiences:
1. Michael Ehline (CA, US Marine, retired)
I now have a successful injury law firm,
and am an expert on the subject of how to become a lawyer with no college or law school in California.
I have been interviewed by many major media outlets,
and am passing this below information so as to assist people just like you
in order to make the world a better place.
WITH a list of famous men who did it the old way.
“ Country Lawyers ”
- Patrick Henry (1736-1799), member of the Continental Congress, governor of Virginia;
- John Jay (1745-1829), first chief justice of the Supreme Court;
- John Marshall (1755-1835), chief justice of the Supreme Court;
- William Wirt (1772-1834), attorney general;
- Roger B. Taney (1777-1864), secretary of the treasury, chief justice of the Supreme Court;
- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), secretary of state;
- Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), senator, chief justice of the Supreme Court;
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), president; Illinois
- Stephen Douglas (1813-1861), representative, senator from Illinois;
- Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), defense attorney in Scopes trial of 1925. [ Darrow went to law school for one year,
and preferred to study law on his own.
He received most of his legal education in a law office in Youngstown, Ohio.
teaching Evolution instead of the "divine creation of man".
+ The trial was the first to be broadcasted on live radio.
ruling that expert scientific testimony on evolution was inadmissible,
on the grounds that it was Scopes who was on trial, not the law he had violated.
+ The next day, Raulston ordered the trial moved to the courthouse lawn, fearing that
the weight of the crowd inside was in danger of collapsing the floor.
+ The TN law would stand for another 42 years. But Clarence Darrow and the ACLU
had succeeded in publicizing scientific evidence for evolution,
and the press reported that though Bryan had won the case, he had lost the argument.
+ The verdict did have a chilling effect on teaching evolution in the classroom, however,
+ Documentary:
PBS American Experience "Monkey Trial" (2002, February 23) YT
+ Movies:
Inherit the Wind (1960, Spencer Tracy & Fredric March, Mildly changed facts/names:) Law Prof. Review YT
Alleged: The Scopes Monkey Trial Movie (2011, Brian Dennehy & Sen. Fred Thompson) Curmudgeon Amazon
- Robert Storey (b. 1893), president of the American Bar Association (1952-1953);
- J. Strom Thurmond (b. 1902), senator, governor of South Carolina;
- James O. Eastland (b. 1904), senator from Mississippi Wallechinsky,
2. 7 people in the last few decades:
via CA's United Farm Workers, agricultural union
founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta,
has been training lawyers through apprenticeships for decades
3. same org (& NY & VA)
Tips & correspondence study of law through William Howard Taft University
CA overview
COMPARING States' Bar Exams