School of Law
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Abraham Lincoln University, serving the community since 1996, provides an online Juris Doctor degree program at a reasonable cost to qualified applicants. ALU offers a rigorous academic environment and the highest-quality legal program with the flexibility and convenience you require.
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Associate Dean of Academic Success
Lydia Liberio, JD
Ms. Liberio earned her JD degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, and an LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution from USC. Her diverse background includes legal practice, teaching law, mediation, and arbitration.
As ALU’s Associate Dean of Academic Success, Ms. Liberio’s primary responsibilities include academic support, faculty development, and curricular innovation reporting to ALU’s CAO. She serves as the main point of contact for all student-facing academic and academic support communications; and mentors as academic advisor to students in the JD, Legal Studies, Criminal Justice and Business Administration programs.
ALU’s mission is to provide accessible, career-focused and lifelong learning opportunities to students at the undergraduate and graduate level. ALU aims to be a leader in online education for a global learning community.
ALU believes in providing students with the opportunity to achieve their educational and career-related goals to contribute to an ever-changing global community.
At Abraham Lincoln University, we believe in:
- Conducting academic and business operations in an open, collaborative and ethical manner.
- Facilitating accessibility and affordability for a diverse and non-traditional student body.
- Incorporating quality into educational activities and support services that meet or exceed standards set by accrediting and regulatory bodies.
- Embedding a practitioner’s perspective into the curriculum with a focus on skills, knowledge and abilities needed for entry or progression in occupations or fields of study.
- Offering a dynamic, technology-based distance education environment that expands access to postsecondary education and engages students in a rich, multimedia learning experience.
- Developing competence in communication, critical thinking, collaboration and information utilization to enhance opportunities for sustained career success.
- Providing clear learning outcomes, timely feedback and assessment to promote student course content mastery.
- Engaging in a constant process of continuous improvement through policy and course and program outcomes assessment to promote student mastery of program and course objectives, retention and graduation.
The School of Law is registered with the Committee of Bar Examiners (CBE) of the State Bar of California as an unaccredited distance learning law school. ALU’s authority to grant a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, which qualifies graduates to take the California Bar Examination and obtain admission to the practice of law in California, is through the Committee of Bar Examiners. ALU students must pass the First-Year Law Students’ Examination (FYLSX) at the end of the first year of law school study.
The State Bar of California
180 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 (Main Office)
415-538-2000 (Main Office)
845 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90017-2515 (Branch Office)
213-765-1000 (Branch Office)
www.calbar.ca.gov
Featured School of Law Faculty
Professor Erin Joyce, Esq.
Attorney Erin Joyce has extensive experience in State Bar investigations and disciplinary proceedings, plus over twenty-five years of civil litigation practice. Erin was admitted in 1990 and practiced for nearly eight years in an intellectual property boutique before joining the Office of Chief Trial Counsel as a prosecutor for the State Bar, from 1997 through 2016. She has almost twenty years of experience handling all aspects of discipline cases against attorneys in State Bar Court, from the filing of the complaint through trial and review. She has personally tried dozens of State Bar trials and several appeals. Erin has a comprehensive understanding of how State Bar investigations and proceedings unfold. Before going into private practice, Erin served as Chief Special Investigator for the Los Angeles Fire Department, as a prosecutor for the State Bar of California, and as a lawyer for multiple private practices.
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Explore how ALU’s online distance education courses can work for you. As one of the top distance education universities in California for non-traditional students, our Admissions team has the information you need to help you with your application and succeed with our school. Additional information is available for those who seek transfer credit or want to study at ALU as an international student.
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