First you need a Bachelors degree (4 years), then you can go to law school. If you attend law school full-time, it will take you three years to get thru that. And then forever to pay off student loans.

law school takes three years. you have to have a bachelors degree and take the LSAT exam to apply. You also have to register with the law school admissions counsel.
A malpractice attorney is just an area of specialty. When you go to law school, you don’t have a major. You just have certain required classes you need to pass and then a specified number of electives past those core classes. So to become an attorney who specializes in malpractice defense or prosecution, you want to try to clerk for a lawyer in that field in your second and third years. You want to make sure to take health care law, insurance law and participate in moot court teams, arbitration classes and client counseling and negotiation.

You have to complete 3 years. You get EITHER your LL.B. or your JD. (LL.B.s are pretty much a european thing these days.) You must also get your bachelor’s degree - in ANY field. As for a “malpractice” attorney, that is just an attorney who takes on professional malpractice cases such as medical malpractice and attorney’s malpractice litigations.

I’ve been an attorney for more than eighteen years; so my advice might be based on outdated information. When I was researching law schools to determine which to attend, there were a couple which did not absolutely require applicants to have bachelor’s degrees.

One might be able to complete law school in two and one-half years by attending summer school; however, I recommend not doing that unless you have a very special and overriding need to finish law school as quickly as possible. In all likelihood, you will benefit more by working in the law during the summer rather than attending summer school.

It is not absolutely necessary to attend or graduate from law school. There are a couple of states, one of which is Washington, which have clerkship programs: one trains to be an attorney by apprenticing ones self to a judge or practicing attorney. The downside is that you might not be able to practice law in a state which doesn’t have a clerkship program because such states require graduation from an A.B.A. accredited law school for admission to the bar.

There are many malpractice attorneys. They practice in the area of professional malpractice. Probably most of them practice in medical malpractice, suing or defending physicians; however, there are many who also practice in legal malpractice, suing or defending attorneys.