Thomas R. Kline School of Law

So you get the picture, she's determined, she's super smart, she's very well liked, and she has got these big, big ambitions.

And that letter of recommendation it worked sammy was accepted to drexel university school of law in philadelphia on a full scholarship girl come through that is amazing and so a couple of weeks before our case takes place sammy had been home in new jersey and she was there to kind of celebrate that acceptance Now, Sammy also had someone else, someone very special in her life who I just want to tell you a little bit about him before we get to the night of the case.

So Sammy's boyfriend, this boy called Greg, they had met at Five Points where they were both students and they had been together since the spring of 2017.

So they've been together a couple of years at this point.

Okay.

Um, roughly a dozen two-year accelerated jd programs currently exist in the u.s the first began at southwestern law in california in 1975 and has since expanded to include suffolk university law school and drexel university school of law the idea got a boost in the early 2010s when northwestern university added an accelerated program and former u.s president barack obama A 1991 Harvard graduate endorsed the idea out of town hall, citing rising law school tuition costs and suggesting that the third year be used for work experience.

Another improvement, for sure.

But the subject has largely disappeared from public discourse and Northwestern suspended their program in 2015, saying the option was hard to administer and received limited demand.