Section 6060 of the Business and Professions Code of the State of California and the rules of the Committee of Bar Examiners regulates the admission to the practice of law in the State of California. Section 6060 reads: "To be certified to the Supreme Court for admission and a license to practice law, a person who does not comply with Section 6062 shall possess all of the following qualifications:

(e) Have either:
(3) Studied law diligently and in good faith for at least four years in any of the following manners:
(iv) By instruction in law from a correspondence law school authorized or approved to confer professional degrees by this state and requiring 864 hours of preparation and study per year for four years."

For admission, each student is responsible to comply with the requirements established by the Committee of Bar Examiners, and to obtain and read the Rules Regulating Admission to Practice Law in California from the Committee of Bar Examiners.

The J.D. program, upon successful completion of the four year study period, is designed to qualify students for licensure and admission to practice in the California State Courts and the United States Federal Courts as a California attorney. The completion of that program does not enable students to be eligible to sit for the bar and be admitted to practice law in states other than California. Many states, however, will admit an attorney to practice law in their jurisdictions if he or she, after passing the bar, has practiced law for some period of time.

It is a rule that students who intend to practice law in California are required to register with the Committee of Bar Examiners within 90 days of enrolment in a law school. And the student registration numbers assigned by the Committee must be notified to the University by each student within 60 days of his or her receipt thereof.

Those students who registered must pass the State of California's "First Year Law Student's Examination" after one year period of study. Transfer students who have completed the first year at an American Bar Association approved, or California State Bar accredited law school do not have to take and pass the First Year Law Students' Examination.