Jaen, Ulysses and Miller, Rebekah, The Future of Legal Education: Game-Changing ABA-Approved Online Law Schools Make Becoming a Lawyer Easier and More Affordable (April 30, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4234790 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4234790

“As the ABA allows law schools to implement a distance education program for legal education, opportunities for potential lawyers will grow due to numerous factors, including lower costs and more versatility of when and how they complete their education. This group of future lawyers will be better able to serve their local communities because they can remain at home rather than moving away for three years to go to law school, which allows them to remain more active in their community and in touch with the legal needs of their neighbors and city. Further, these lawyers will be better off financially post-graduation because their legal education will cost less due to the distance aspect and their living expenses will cost less due to remaining at home versus moving away. Thus, they will be better able to focus on the why of practicing law versus the need for income to pay off debt weighing more important than anything else. “