The Executive Juris Doctor: Become a Lincoln Lawyer

Have you considered becoming a Lincoln Lawyer? A Lincoln lawyer is an attorney who studied law under a licensed attorney to qualify to take the California State Bar exam.

Now, you may want to consider taking a paralegal course at a community college and working your way up to becoming a law clerk. In doing so, you can avoid taking out a major student loan and then being burdened financially, potentially to the grave. In a law office study program, you’re making a decent living, and the potential is that in four years you may find yourself qualified to take the California Bar Exam.

My course is a comprehensive program of lectures on substantive law that spans more than 20 hours. It includes 61 lectures and is designed to equip you with an understanding of substantive law. I recommend watching it repeatedly and purchasing the textbook to read along, highlight, and make notes.

As a former newspaper editor, I was required to adhere to the Associated Press standard for newspaper writing, ensuring that complex concepts are presented in a way that’s easy to understand for everyone.

Basically, at a seventh-grade reading level. And so, I do my best to explain complex legal matters in as simple of a context as I can.

One can start off taking a paralegal course or receive OJT as a paralegal and learn the basics of how legal cases are prepared and maintained. As a paralegal, you can later transition to becoming a law clerk once you have acquired a comprehensive understanding of the substantive law.

In California law clerks and paralegals can home-study while working for a licensed attorney. They need to develop a thorough understanding of the substantive law.

After all of the educational requirements are met, such as passing the first-year bar exam and meeting the time requirements, the applicant may qualify to sit for the general state bar exam.

After five years of practice in California, other states, which normally require graduation from an ABA law school, allow non-ABA attorneys to sit for their state bar exams.

A textbook is available online at Barnes & Noble, titled Become a Lincoln Lawyer The print version puts the verbatim language used in the videos into a handsomely designed 681-page print context.

The Executive Juris Doctor Certificate of Completion is available upon completion of this course.

The classes taught in this course include:

• Contracts law – The study of the formation of contracts and the legal and equitable remedies available

• Tort law – The study of intentional wrongs, negligence, and strict liability

• Criminal law – The study of crimes against persons and property, the elements of culpability, and defenses

• Property law – The study of moveable property (chattels) and immovable property (real estate), the acquisition of property,  and the rights of landlords and tenants

• Civil Procedure – The study of the process of how civil cases are filed, the discovery process, rules of court, and how cases advance through the court system

• Criminal Procedure – The study of the process of how criminal cases are filed, the discovery process, rules of court, and, how such cases advance through the court system

• Evidence – The study of the admissibility of evidence and the exceptions to the rule against hearsay

• Family law – The study of community property, prenuptial agreements, and child custody issues

• Wills – The study of memorial documents that distribute property, methods of distribution in cases of intestate succession

• Trusts – The study of contractual agreements to distribute property

• Corporations law– The study of organizational business entities, their attributes of personage, survivability, and how they can be utilized to protect assets

• Constitutional law – The study of the U.S. Constitution, focusing on the Articles of Incorporation, the Bill of Rights, the Reconstruction amendments, and recent amendments

The following textbooks are available online at Barnes and Noble and can be found, along with other publications, under my name, Shane Irvine:

Become a Lincoln LawyerISBN 979-8-891-45669-3

The Bootstrapped EntrepreneurISBN 979-8-892-17209-7

The Sales Management Team TextbookISBN 979-8-891-45086-8

The Perfect Business PlanISBN 979-8-892-17201-1

Business Law for the Nascent EntrepreneurISBN 979-8-892-17208-0

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!