ABOUT AMERICAN HERITAGE SCHOOL OF LAW
Law Degree Program
AHUSOL offers a Juris Doctorate degree. A Juris Doctorate (J.D.) is a professional degree in law. It is the degree that most law students must attain to entitle them to take a bar examination and, upon passing, become a licensed attorney. AHU offers a four-year, part-time J.D. program. This is a non-ABA law school. The part-time J.D. program allows student to continue to work full-time while they attend law school.
In addition, AHUSOL awards law students that complete two years of law study a Bachelor of Science in Law (B.S.L.). This law degree is included in the tuition for the J.D. program. Students must complete at least one of the two required years for the degree.
AHUSOL is registered with the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. We award our graduates a Juris Doctorate degree under their authority, and by that authority, the graduates are eligible to take the California Bar Examination.
The method of instruction at this law school is principally by technological means including interactive classes.
Students who are enrolled in the J.D. program and successfully complete the first year of law study must pass the First-Year Law Students’ Examination required by Business and Professions Code § 6060(h) and Rule VIII of the Rules Regulating Admission to Practice Law in California as part of the requirements to qualify to take the California Bar Examination. A student who passes the First-Year Law Students’ Examination within three (3) administrations of the examination after first becoming eligible to take it will receive credit for all legal studies completed to the time the examination is passed. A student who does not pass the examination within three (3) administrations of the examination after first becoming eligible to take it must be promptly disqualified from the law school’s J.D. degree program. If the dismissed student subsequently passes the examination, the student is eligible for re-enrollment in this law school’s J.D. degree program, but will receive credit for only one year of legal study.
Study at, or graduation from, this law school may not qualify a student to take the bar examination or to satisfy the requirements for admission to practice in jurisdictions other than California. A student intending to seek admission to practice law in a jurisdiction other than California should contact the admitting authority in that jurisdiction for information regarding the legal education requirements in that jurisdiction for admission to the practice of law.