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[quote=Anonymous]I can only comment on Georgetown part time program. I did it in 3.5 years by taking classes one summer. So instead of normal graduation for full time students in May, I graduated in December. The program is great. You can take classes during the day after the first year if you want to. But many of the most sought after classes are in the evenings (federal Judges and other practitioners teach then). There is no difference in activities. You can write on to the journals. Class rank and honors are determined by the entire class that starts in a given year, including evening students. You can interview for summer associate positions - it just means taking a leave of absence from other job or quitting. Hardly anyone gets a good summer associate position after 1L year. It's the 2L year that matters. By then you husband could have picked up a summer class and be ready to take a summer associate position for that summer and find a legal part time job for the scho year. Or he could do what I did whih was parlay the DC summer associate position into a full time job at the same firm during the school year.  Judicial clerkships are equally open, in fact I got one in part because they were impressed that I worked fulltime and did well in law school.

And if you have to work and do law school it limits how much you can obsess over either. The students in Georgetown's night section were impressive and from many different backgrounds. For example,  Surgeon,  congressional aides, an astronaut, pilot, professional athlete. A very interesting group that provides a different sort of network. My summer associate position actually came through a class contact more so than the interviews (though I did the interviews and got several offers).

So I would say don't assume day school is that much faster. Don't assume day school won't expand to fill all available time and he will be just as tied up as if doing part time school plus work. Georgetown night students don't have to miss any opportunities available to other students. They even rotate all professors through to teach night school sections of the core courses.

And think about this - there's a chance, probably small, that DH loathes law school. It happens. If he keeps his job for the first year at least he can drop it and not have to find a job coming out of what might be perceived as a "failure" of sorts.

Finally, go to the highest ranked school that has the program you decide you want. 
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