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Part-Time Day

Whittier Law School recognizes that work and family obligations limit some students’ ability to participate in a traditional full-time day law program. To accommodate such students, Whittier Law School offers a part-time day program. Students normally complete the part-time day program in four years. Part-time students must enroll in eight to eleven credit hours each semester. Many take additional credit hours during summer term. Part-time day program classes generally meet two or three days a week.

Required Curriculum

First-Year Requirements Credit Hours
Contracts I & II 6
Criminal Law 3
Legal Writing I & II 4
Torts I & II 6
Second-Year Requirements Credit Hours
Civil Procedure I 4
Constitutional Law I & II 6
Real Property I & II 6
Legal Methods I (Depending on GPA) 1
Legal Methods II (Depending on GPA in Legal Methods I) 1
Third-Year Requirements Credit Hours
Professional Responsibility 2
Professional Skills I 2
Evidence 4
Business Associations 4
Fourth-Year Requirements Credit Hours
Legal Analysis Workshop 3
Professional Skills II 2
Criminal Procedure 3

Most part-time students take courses during one or two summer sessions. Required courses generally offered in the summer session include Criminal Procedure, Community Property and UCC l. Students may obtain the remaining credit hours required for graduation by selection from a large variety of elective courses in areas of interest to them.

* In addition to required courses, it is highly recommended that students enroll in courses that are tested on many bar exams. These courses include Wills & Trusts, Remedies, UCC I and Community Property.