LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With the graduation of its
inaugural class on the horizon, Concord University School of Law, the world's
first and only wholly Internet law school, is rising to the occasion with
escalating enrollment and solid performance.  Less than four years after
opening its virtual doors, Concord has become the second largest part-time law
school in the country, based on the size of the first-year entering class, and
is proving to be a viable model in creating access to a legal education for
students worldwide via the Internet:

     Phenomenal Growth in Four Years
     * Concord has grown from 33 students to more than 1000 students today
       enrolled in Concord's Juris Doctor, Executive Juris Doctor sm, and
       LL.M. in Health Law programs.

     * The faculty has grown from six faculty members at Concord's launch in
       1998 to more than 60 legal academics and practitioners.

     Attracting and Developing Top Quality Students and Faculty
     * More than 42% of Concord's current students already hold one or more
       advanced degrees, including 67 MDs, 33 Ph.D.s and 23 CPAs.

     * Concord students have excelled on the notoriously difficult First Year
       Law Students Examination, given in California, with a pass rate of
       nearly 50% compared to the statewide first time takers pass rate of
       30%.

     * Faculty is comprised of law school deans and professors, judges,
       litigators and academics. Supplementary and visiting lecturers include
       Harvard Law School professor Arthur Miller, criminal law expert Rafael
       Guzman and John E. Moye, current president of the Colorado State Bar.

     * Many of the faculty are former or currently active practicing attorneys
       or hold academic posts.  Other professional endeavors among current
       faculty include publishing legal treatises, serving as bench officers
       in civil or criminal matters, working on new legislation, chairing
       various ethics and technology committees or developing new
       accreditation guidelines for online education.

     * Current student internships include placements in a state District
       Attorney's office, a Small Claims Court Advisor program, a circuit
       court judge's office and a private attorney's office.

     Creating Access For A Diverse Student and Faculty Population
     * Students now hail from all 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, and
       13 other countries worldwide including Spain, Bahrain, Korea, Belgium,
       Kazahstan, Japan, England and U.S. territories Puerto Rico and Guam.

     * The student body includes CEOs, physicians, bankers, real estate
       developers, engineers, pilots, police officers, retired and active
       military officers, city officials, nurses, compliance analysts,
       dentists, consultants, sales representatives, accountants, small
       business owners and entrepreneurs, stay-at-home parents and family
       caregivers.

     * Faculty currently teach from 21 different states and are admitted to
       practice law in 24 different jurisdictions.

     Expanding Curriculum With Unique Programs and Specialized Practice Areas
     * L.L.M. in Health Law: Provides attorneys and recent graduates access to
       practice-oriented specialty courses in dynamic field of practice,
       including e-health and telemedicine, health care regulation, health
       care organization and finance.

     * Online Trial Advocacy program: An online course that teaches the
       fundamentals of the courtroom and oral advocacy -- such as opening
       statements, direct and cross examinations, jury selection, introduction
       of evidence -- and provides the opportunity for students to develop
       their skills through practice.  The curriculum focuses on trial tactics
       & techniques and requires that students perform about 150 minutes of
       trial technique demonstrations and submit videotapes for critique and
       assessment.

     * Legal Education Experience Program (LEEP): A nationwide
       clinical/internship program designed to provide  hands-on legal
       experience.

     * Legal Analysis and Writing (LAW) course: Intensive course focused on
       learning and developing skills in fact analysis, issues identification
       and essay and brief writing; includes a Moot Court component.

     Gaining Credibility Among Media and Legal Industry
     * " ... Concord's existence has already significantly impacted the
       [traditional legal] academy.  There is no doubt that legal institutions
       will eventually, and in ways probably not always apparent, adopt much
       of Concord's technology and apply it in some form to traditional law
       school teaching.  One can hope that somewhere, in the not too distant
       future, Concord will be recognized as a major force that caused
       traditional law school teaching methods and offerings to be changed to
       reflect the digital age." -- William Mitchell Law Review

     * "Already, other universities have called Concord looking for advice on
        how to adapt its Internet-based strategies to the needs of schools
        with brick-and-mortar facilities ... the ABA may be forced to develop
        ways to measure the value of on-line education, not by the blue-blood
        perspective of law schools of the past, but by [Concord Dean Jack]
        Goetz's more utilitarian approach, looking -- a decade from now -- at
        the achievements of Concord's graduates and their ability to practice
        law." -- University Business

     * "Concord's high retention rate and its innovative learning tools are
        drawing increased attention and positioning the school as a model
        distance learning program.  Developers and instructors of online
        training sessions would be wise to emulate this learner-focused
        approach." -- Training Magazine

     * "[The Concord model] does have profound potential.  If we are not
       actively working to take part in it, then we will get run over by it."
       -- Henry H. Perritt Jr., dean of Chicago-Kent College of Law, in ABA
       Journal.

     * "Clearly, [the distance learning model] is something we're going to
       have to face." -- Nancy Slonim, spokeswoman for the American Bar
       Association, in Legal Times

    About Concord Law School:
    Concord (http://www.concordlawschool.com) has been authorized to award the
Juris Doctor degree by the California Bureau of Private Post-Secondary and
Vocational Education and has complied with the registration requirements of
the State Bar of California, which permits its graduates to apply for
admission to the California Bar.  Additionally, Concord is accredited by the
Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC).
The DETC Accrediting Commission is listed by the U.S. Department of Education
as a nationally recognized accrediting agency and is a recognized member of
the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).  The Concord Law Center
provides an online Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Health Law program to law
graduates and attorneys.  Concord is part of Kaplan Higher Education
(http://www.kaplancollege.edu), a group of institutions that offer fixed
facility and online certificate and degree programs in fields such as
healthcare, business, information technology and legal studies. Each of the
individual schools is separately accredited by one of several national or
regional accrediting agencies approved by the U.S. Department of Education.
Kaplan, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company
(NYSE: WPO).

     Press Contact: Carina Wong, carina_wong@kaplan.com, 212-492-5992