Two-Year JD Program

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Elizabeth Olson, The 2-Year Law Degree Fails to Take Off. New York Times, Dec 26, 2015.
www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/busin ... ls-to-take-off.html

"The only elite school to adopt it [two-year law degree], the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, this fall ended its accelerated two-year juris doctor program * * * The program, which started in 2010 * * * there was a free-fall in applications

"As a university-affiliated law school, Northwestern was allowed [by American Bar Association accreditation rules] to recruit a percentage of high-achieving undergraduates, who might have otherwise gone to another law school, to go directly to its law school, using results from tests like Graduate Record Exam (GRE) rather than the more traditional Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). * * * The rule change was criticized by some stand-alone law schools as a shortcut that helped university-affiliated law schools corral good students. About two dozen independent schools pressed the accrediting body, the ABA Section on Legal Education, to rescind the new rule. Last summer * * * the ABA reversed itself effective in 2017 * * * Even with the overturned rule, Barry Currier, the A.B.A. section’s managing director for accreditation and legal education, said law schools could continue to recruit high-performing undergraduates who have completed three-fourths of their education to participate in '3 + 3' accelerated programs. The six-year program allows qualified rising seniors to enter law school and complete both a bachelor’s and law degree in less time than the typical seven years.  Such streamlined programs have been more popular with the legal academy.

Note:
(a) Quotation 1 refers to Accelerated JD.
www.law.northwestern.edu/academics/degree-programs/jds/ajd/
("Students in the Accelerated JD program complete the same number of credit hours as traditional three-year JD students, only they do so in five semesters over the course of two calendar years")
(b) Regarding quotation 2. Northwestern law school has not posted it online. However, other law schools in US do. "As a result of the August 2014 revision of the American Bar Association (ABA) Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools (Standard 503, Interpretation 503-3)," undergraduates from the same university -- having completed at least six semesters (which take three years) with a level of academic achievement (top 10% of the class or GPA 3.5 out of 4, for example -- may apply to JD program of same university directly without having to take LSAT. The JD will take three years, as usual.
(c) "Despite the closure, a handful of other law schools are still successfully offering a two-year degree option. They include Brooklyn Law School [1901- ; private], University of Kansas, University of Dayton [[1850- ; based in Dayton, Ohio; Catholic] School of Law and Southwestern Law School [1911- ; private] in Los Angeles. * * * accreditation rules require the same number of course credits to graduate"

(d) "Among schools committed to a third year, the University of California Hastings School of the Law has a Lawyers for America program that provides students with the option of spending their final year getting hands-on skills. Students also commit for a year following their graduation [from JD program, not bachelor's] to work in the same place [as where he or she had spent time in the third year, as the payback], for an annual stipend of $35,000, according to Marsha N Cohen, a law professor and founding executive director of the program."
(i) University of California, Hastings College of the Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Hastings_College_of_the_Law
(Founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of California)
(ii) The English and Scottish surname Hastings is from a place of the same name "in Sussex, on the south coast of England, near which the English army was defeated by the Normans in 1066. It is named from Old English H?stingas ‘people of H?sta’. The surname was taken to Scotland under William the Lion in the latter part of the 12th century."

(e) "Ali Nicolette, 28, of Ali Nicolette, 28, of Huntington Beach, Calif [a seaside city in Orange County; named after American railroad magnate Henry E Huntington], a third-year student who works for Disability Rights California, a statewide agency, a third-year student who works for Disability Rights California [1978- ; based in Sacramento; NGO], a statewide agency"