which law school allows working first year students?

[free_arrow]

that's pretty much all i want to know. don't know if this question belongs here but yeah, i heard so far that only arellano doesn't allow working first year students. this so? would appreciate it if someone would fill me in. thanks bunches.

[lychee]

The UP College of Law allows the same :)

[smilewarrior]

The UP College of Law has evening classes.

You could take your classes in the evening and work in the morning (Law is very difficult though, working and studying law at the same time could be very taxing physically and mentally, but if you're extremely organized and have good study habits then I guess you might survive).

[free_arrow]

Thanks, I appreciate it people. :)

[smilewarrior]

Your welcome. Good luck.

[frogstomp]

San Beda College of Law accepts working students. Classes would start at around 5:30 pm onwards, just indicate in your application that you are a working student so that they can put you on a working class :)

[DJQuimby]

MLQU

[pyke]

teka, arellano nga haven ng working students...

pwede ka pili bet. the regular 4 year program (weekday class 6pm onwards)

or the 5 year executive program (sat and sun class)

[CPA_LLB]

that's pretty much all i want to know. don't know if this question belongs here but yeah, i heard so far that only arellano doesn't allow working first year students. this so? would appreciate it if someone would fill me in. thanks bunches.

San Beda College of Law has a working class-block section for first year (2 sections) and second year (1 section). Classes start at 530pm. By third year, no block section for working students, they expect you to become irregular students already. Classes for non-working class/block start at 430pm.

You just have to present a Certificate of Employment to the Law Office when you enrol.

[Thoma§]

law student ako by next semester, hopefully. puwede bang hindi mag-work habang nag-lalaw pero ang iaavail na schedule/shift eh 'yung pang-working? do they check it or it depends sa gusto ng student? mas gusto ko kasi na gabi ang pasok tapos aral sa umaga.

gusto ko rin mag-work, kaso, i'll try to determine first if i can handle a job (most probably, part-time) and law school at the same time.

[vain]

any law school accepts working students. but there are some where it is more advisable not to work .

when i was in ateneo law, i was working and i took evening classes. a lot of my blockmates were also working. it was TOUGH. i ended up quitting my job after 1 month of being in school. law school is way different from being in college. you literally have to read AND memorize HUNDREDS of pages everyday. i have some friends in San Beda law too and the also say its tough to juggle work and school because san beda also has a rigorous law program, same as ateneos. in UP naman, u don't have as much number of units like in ateneo or beda so working while in UP law might not be so hard.

a piece of advice tho, for 1st year law students, it's better to NOT work and focus on school muna. its the adjustment/getting familiar with the systm stage kase.

but then again, its really up to the person. i just really couldnt hack it. i would literraly be getting just 2-3 hours of sleep everyday. and its hard to think at school or perform at work when you're feeling like a darn zombie!

P.S.: La salle offers a double major (mba-law) and their work load is more for working students talaga. maybe u should look into their program :)

:*)

[gox]

I think most law schools accept working students.

ON another note, I advise that you quit your job before attending law school. It is extremely difficult to balance both work and law school. First year law school is extremely tough, and you will have to AT LEAST spend 5 hours a day reading an unreasonable amount of cases written in difficult prose, memorizing codes, and preparing for recitations.

I was in the evening class of Ateneo. During orientation, more than half of my section were working students. Since all the working students found it close to impossible to balance school and work, by week three, all of them quit their jobs to become full time law students. If you want to work while studying law, then you need to have a a photographic memory to recall all the facts you read in order to give a good performance in recitation, and you need excellent reasoning skills to quickly follow through the dense logic behind judicial decisions. Photographic memory and sound reasoning skills are necessary, if you want to breeze through a days work (usually 50-100 cases) of law school homework and expect to get good grades (and grades are everything in law school) and time to still do well in the working world.

I know some people who were successful in balancing work and law school, but these are the rare cases.

As they say, "law school is a jealous mistress"..and you need to give her a lot of time.

[CPA_LLB]

law student ako by next semester, hopefully. puwede bang hindi mag-work habang nag-lalaw pero ang iaavail na schedule/shift eh 'yung pang-working? do they check it or it depends sa gusto ng student? mas gusto ko kasi na gabi ang pasok tapos aral sa umaga.

gusto ko rin mag-work, kaso, i'll try to determine first if i can handle a job (most probably, part-time) and law school at the same time.

You have to present a Certificate of Employment from your employer. Unless of course your parents have a family owned business or you have a relative who can prepare a certificate of employment.

They will be asking for that certificate if you want to be in the block section for working students. Non-working students who are able to enrol in the working class are irregular students. They are allowed to enrol since it is the class time for that subject that can fit in their schedule for the subjects they are enrolled.

In any case, classes for full-time students start at 430pm. The 1 hour difference doesn't really matter that much in terms of studying.

But if you want to consider competition in terms of academic performance in the working class, if you are a full time student then you would always be better prepared than your classmates. It really doesn't matter that much because the terror professors are equally distributed to the 12 1st year sections.

If you really want to study law, it is better to be a full time student. You need to adjust to the demands of law school. Many working students in the block section in first year quit studying law by the first week of classes. By second semester, only around half are left in the class. And by that time, many have already resigned from their jobs to focus on studying.

[paralusi]

"The 1989 survey of law schools conducted by the Bureau of Higher Education finds that two-thirds of the population in the law schools are working students. Of this estimate, 85 percent are regular or full-time employees in government agencies or private firms. This accounts for the fact that, with few exceptions, classes are invariably held in the evening in private law schools as well as in public schools outside of the U.P. College of Law. Note that generally the law faculty in private schools is drawn from the bench and law firms which demand a full day’s work."

"Regular day classes are maintained by the U.P. College of Law for full-time students. However, evening classes are held for working students."

- Merlin M. Magallona, A BRIEF REPORT ON LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

[Thoma§]

baka mag-work na lang ako (part-time) if ever i make it to law schools. 1 hour lang pala ang difference eh (sa UP lang ba 'yun?). sana lahat ng law schools panggabi ang schedule.

[pinkrose]

Pwede sa UP, mag-evening class ka. Make sure lang na di masyado taxing yung job mo para makaaral ka pa.