"L" is for legal education. A high percentage of colonial South Carolina’s lawyers were trained at the Inns of Court in London. After the Revolution, reading for the bar was the only means of studying law in the state. In 1866, a law school was established at the University of South Carolina—and from 1886 to 1951, its graduates did not have to take a bar exam. After 1951, USC graduates and those of the law school at South Carolina State had to take the bar exam. In 1958 the state Supreme Court prohibited reading law and required all candidates for the bar to be law school graduates. Over the years there were law schools at Allen, Claflin, and Furman. In 2004, the Charleston School of Law opened provided another option for legal education in South Carolina.
"L" is for legal education
