The unique features an online degree from a law school offers have made it a popular choice, especially for professionals busy with work and without the time or the resources to attend a regular law school. While nothing can replace a solid education at a top tier school, online law schools do a very good job of delivering great value that can help you immensely in advancing your career.

Let's take a look at some of the advantages that online law schools have to offer:

1. The Ability to Study Anywhere

This is easily the most obvious, and the most attractive feature of an online school. Professionals who are busy with their career and have neither the time, nor the resources to attend a regular school can benefit greatly from attending an online school. You can study from anywhere: your bedroom, the office, the local coffee shop as long as you have access to a computer.

2. Flexible School Hours

Since you don't have to be physically present at the school, you can study as per your own schedule. Maybe you have a job, maybe you run your own business, maybe you are a housewife with two kids, whatever your situation may be, with an online law school, you can set your own schedule of study. You of course have to be present when group discussions take place online, or when your instructor hands you any lessons, but on the whole, online schools offer tremendous flexibility.

3. Value for Money

A typical education at a top tier law school can set you back by more than a $100,000. An online school, since it does not have to spend as much on infrastructure and physical employees, is comparatively cheaper. This, along with the benefits mentioned above, make it a great value for money.

A law degree from a traditional college is still the best option when it comes to getting a law education. However, the constraints of time and the demands of a job or family do not afford this opportunity to everyone. An online law school, in such cases, can be a very effective way of advancing your career.

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Law is, for many students aspiring to become lawyers, an intriguing thing to study. If you don't have a passion for the law and how to use it to win in court, help people, or bring justice to your own ideals, then going to law school may not be for you. Law school is more than just a place to practice law, it's a place where you learn all about the current laws on the books as well as all the cases before, that were won, that have changed the law or created new laws. Many laws are formed due to winning cases in the judicial system and when your fighting a case in court you need to know which cases inspired the new laws or laws you want to show gives your client their rights.

What law school you go to will determine both your success and comfort in studying to pass the bar. All law schools perform pretty much the same function of helping you pass this exam, however, they don't all function the same way or with the same rules. Some schools have a prestigious background and have trained some of the best lawyers in the world, while others do a good job but simply haven't earned any notoriety for whatever reason. The politics of law school rankings is that the schools that are ranked higher than others may not be any better or worse than the ones that ranked lower, but they are ranked due to many things that may actually give you a better chance at success.

The law school rankings system is designed to "grade" several areas of law school internal curriculum such as how well their classes are set up, difficulty level, teaching staff, and more. These rankings are often relative to the person or persons doing the actual grading and shouldn't be taken as "law" when it comes to picking a school. This should simply be a way to see which schools have decent programs that may help you. You may find a school that ranks lower to be more comfortable and having an easier curriculum than one that ranks higher. In the end it is a matter of personal choice, comfort, and what you're looking for. Many ranking systems take this into account and don't rigidly rank the schools so much as the internal workings so the particular parts of the program mean more than the overall school, which cannot be ranked fairly anyway against other schools as each school has its strengths and weaknesses, but each have their unique characteristics.

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I went to school with a tank of a young man. He played football and wrestled, and he was my pal.

Fairly quiet, he was a great audience, laughing easily, especially at jokes that had a tone of menace to them.

To those that didn't know him, like a feral animal, he emitted something that made him a spirit to encounter only at a distance.

Whatever that aura was, it had worn off by the time he graduated high school and became one of our town's entrenched homeless. I heard he had killed one of his ranks in a turf battle, another street-guy.

When that news was delivered, the first thing that came to mind was his Cheshire grin, signaling he knew more than he'd ever tell, and no force on this earth could ever make him tell.

That quality made him someone you could count on, the type of guy you wouldn't mind having in a foxhole next to you.

Years passed, about a dozen, when I got a call from a mutual friend. He informed me that our killer had done it again.

Same M/O-he stabbed and mortally wounded a homeless confederate.

There is a memorable Oscar Wilde line, which says, roughly: "If you lose a parent it is a misfortune. Lose two, and it looks like carelessness."

My old pal was looking suspiciously careless.

He avoided incarceration for the second killing, and a few years after that, I inconspicuously observed him panhandling in a seaside park.

Looking very healthy, and even youthful, he had obviously beaten the odds that peg a homeless person's life expectancy at less than five years.

Nothing about him signaled his pugilistic past.

He seemed very comfortable in his skin, at peace in this tourist filled venue on a sunny afternoon.

I have attended high school reunions where I've mingled with The Night of the Living Dead, souls that didn't have a trace of the mercury or ice water that still pumped though my buddy's veins.

Did he murder those two guys? Were there others I didn't hear about, unreported victims?

Or was it a matter of repeated acts of self-defense?

Who knows?

I'd give him the benefit of the doubt--and a very wide berth.

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Southwestern Law School is a private educational institution that opened its doors in 1911. Unlike most other schools, this one has no affiliation with any undergraduate institution. The founder, John J. Schumacher, established this as a non-profit institution that would give women and minorities the opportunity to study law. This is the oldest school in the state of California. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and is ranked in the third tier of law schools by US News.

This school has a student faculty ratio of 14.4 with students from every state and many countries around the world. The ratio of men to women in the student body is 50:50, with 38% being in the minority status. In this student body, there is a reported 35 different foreign languages that are spoken fluently. The 25th to 75th percentile of the student body GPA is 2.96 to 3.48 with the LSAT scores between 153 and 157.

The facility has 50 full time professors with over 33% women and 20% from a minority race. The programs they teach are Moot Court Honors Program, Negotiations Honors Program, and Trial Advocacy Honors Program. They also support clinical programs that include the Children's Rights Clinic, Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, Street Law, and Youth in Transition to name a few.

Notable alumni members include Tom Bradley, Marcia Clark, Chris Bahr, Donald Sterling, and the 14th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Howard W. Hunter.

The Southwestern School is a place where everyone is given the same chance for success.

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Despite the fact that I've published well over 1,000 articles and am the best-selling author of 12 books, and I can boast having earned 5 college degrees, a tectonic realization made me shudder, recently:

I AM NOT LEARNING FAST ENOUGH!

Here are some of the accompanying insights:

(1) The speed with which I learn, the velocity, is perhaps more important than what I learn. For instance, I've always been what I consider to be a lucky researcher. Plunk me down in a library and within mere minutes I'll not only find what I came in for, but also more important items that I didn't know existed. Or, to put it another way, I can undertake to learn A, but I'll stumble upon Z in the process, and that will make all the difference. Speed enables me to sift through lots of silt and inevitably I'll find gold, or who knows, diamonds, even if I'm in a less than ideal place.

(2) If you're slow to learn, you'll be reluctant to adapt. In business, sloth at best means a s-l-o-w death.

(3) Learning NEW things ushers in the ABANDONMENT OF THE OLD, a necessary condition to innovation and breakthroughs. Or, as a glib baseball coach once said, "You can't keep your foot on first, and steal second!"

(4) Feedback loops are not naturally occurring in many fields, and especially for entrepreneurs and the self-employed. We have to seek them out and develop them, even if it feels like we're forcing information from people. Every day should involve some explicit "polling" of customers. "How did that set of audios work out for you?" and "How are we doing?" should be constantly asked, and we should listen especially for what information ISN'T immediately forthcoming.

Every few years yet another soldier emerges, blistered, tattered, and paranoid, from the underbrush on an island in the Pacific, only to be informed that World War II ended more than 60 years ago. Here, he has been waging battles against enemies that have been friends for more than a half-century.

The picture in his head has been hopelessly out of whack with the "reality" of the surrounding world, but without information, how could he know that?

Make sure you're in a position to learn as fast as possible!

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Whether you believe humans were born to move along upright or to crawl on all fours, we know at this point in our development that walking is one of the most natural exercises we can do.

Yet all to few of us, especially in the West, where the car tamed the land, are using this natural capability to its fullest advantage.

If you want to begin exercising, or add a nice bit of spice to an existing program, try walking for these reasons:

(1) It's inherently non-competitive. Unless you speed-walk, you can take your time, setting a thoroughly natural or challenging pace, as you please.

(2) It's portable, and even if you're staying in a concrete jungle, as I have on many business trips, a shopping mall will probably not be far away, and the hotel lot may actually be perfect, even providing a modicum of surveillance and security.

(3) You'll never have to wait in line! Unlike those trendy machines at gyms, your feet and shoes are always ready when you are.

(4) The endorphins, those happy-attitudes swimmers in your brain, will still tickle your fancy if you take a leisurely stroll or you speed up the clip.

(5) You'll be able to think and generate new ideas, and if you're like me, passively problem-solve at the same time.

Above all, it's truly easy.

So, start today, and I know you'll please yourself!

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During a recent keynote speech at the Annenberg School For Communication at USC, I emphasized to a gathering of students and alumni that they should use great care when characterizing what they do for a living.

For instance, if you label yourself a writer, in some circumstances you'll be lucky to be paid a dollar per word, upon publication. That's not bad if your articles are syndicated widely. But if they are not, you're seeking starvation wages.

I mentioned one of my most successful "writings" is a conversational path that I penned a number of years ago. By my admittedly imprecise metric, it has been "performed" in more than a billion phone conversations.

Consisting mainly of a scientifically crafted four lines of text, about fifty words, it, along with the training programs I have devised to explain and teach it, has produced seven figures of earnings for me, and perhaps one hundred times or a thousand times more value for my immediate clients.

Imitators have latched onto it and have prospered with it, so much that I'm sure you have heard a variation of my text several times from your bank, mobile phone service provider, and utility company, to name a few common users.

My point is that I didn't craft this call path as a "writer."

I composed it as a consultant, keenly interested in raising the productivity and contribution of customer service personnel. My four lines redesigned the work of tens of thousands of people, making their conversations about 25% shorter, and measurably better.

This writing creates profits. It cuts costs. It retains customers.

How you characterize yourself and your contribution will inform to a large extent what you are permitted to do, occupationally, and how much you are paid for it.

As I stated, I trained people to use my script. That makes me a "trainer," correct?

But if I sell my services as a trainer I'll make a fraction of that which is paid to "consultants." And if I call myself a "teacher," I'll make less than a trainer commands.

A very helpful, seminal discussion on a related topic was launched many moons ago by one of my professors, revered management guru Peter F. Drucker. He asked executives to regularly consider and to reconsider this question:

"What business are you in?"

Railroads, according to Drucker, mischaracterized their mission as being in the rail business. That contributed to being eclipsed by trucking and by airlines.

Had they re-characterized themselves as being in the "transportation" business they might have adapted to changing technologies and booming demand.

"What do you do?" is a common ice-breaker that we ask and hear when we meet people. Your answer should be very carefully considered, because its impacts will do more than stimulate or impair that chat.

You could be unwittingly opening or narrowing your occupational and financial horizons.

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