Concord Law School Graduates Summer 2007 Class

Business Wire, July 30, 2007

LOS ANGELES -- Concord Law School celebrated the graduation of 101 students on Saturday, July 28 in Los Angeles at the Skirball Cultural Center. The graduating class included 64 graduates of the Juris Doctor program and 37 graduates who earned their Executive Juris Doctor degree.

Nearly half of the graduates entered Concord with one or more graduate degrees including 48 Masters degrees, 7 Ph.D.s, and 2 M.D.s. 12 of the graduates had earned multiple graduate degrees. Among the graduates there were many individuals with fascinating personal stories, including:

* A woman who recently took the bar exam as she approaches her seventh decade. Her first career was as an elementary school principal, she then started a successful real estate business, her third career will be law-related

* A number of airline pilots who are preparing for a second career as they face the uncertain future of the airline industry

* A pediatric nurse practitioner who sits on the ethics board of her hospital

* The President/CEO of MedicAlert Foundation

* A 20 yr career TV broadcast engineer who has worked on the Olympics, Academy Awards, and who helped launch the Oxygen network

* An academic who has published two texts on native American Indians that are used at over 50 colleges in the U.S.

The graduation speaker was Michael Lambert, executive director of the Distance Education and Training Council. "Mike has been a great supporter of our work at Concord and understands perhaps more than anyone both the challenges and the tremendous potential of distance education," said Concord President and Dean Barry Currier.

Following the graduation ceremony Judge Robert Perry, of the Los Angeles Superior Court, administered the oath of admission to four Concord graduates who had passed the California bar.

Concord Law School is the nation's first institution to offer a Juris Doctor (JD) degree earned wholly online. It is authorized to award the Juris Doctor degree by the California BPPVE and is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Concord is a division of Kaplan, Inc., a leading international provider of educational and career services. Kaplan is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. For more information on Concord, visit info.concordlawschool.edu.