this is the education report in special english recently we told you how some medical school in the united states offer future docters a way to finish in three years instead of four. some law school also offer a way to save a year. people who want to become lawyear traditionally attend three years of law school. like medical students many law students are deeply in debt by the time they finish their juris docter or. JD degree. those who take out loans borrowan average of around 100000.almost all graduates must pass a state bar examination to get a license to practice law. new york univresity law school professor samuel erstreicher thinks more students should be allowed to take the bar exam after two years of classes. this was more common in the past. superme court justice banjamin cardozo and president franklin roosevelt both took the bar exam after two years. profassor erstericeher also suggeste a more profassional instcad of a more academic program of study learning more about profassional skills he says would better perpare a lawyer to serve the meeds of average americans. some law school offer a choice of a two-or three-year program. in 2009 northwestern university school of law in chicago become the countrv's first top law school to add an accelerated program. accelerated students at northwestern have to learn the same materialand pay the same price as three-year students. some lawyers argue against accelerated programs.they question whether many law firms would want to hire lawyers without that third years of law school