A brown wooden house with wing, lit by the sun from above. At the foot of a small tree in front of the building at the center, an oval sign identifies it as the Tapping Reeve House and Law School

The Litchfield Law School of Litchfield, Connecticut, was the first proprietary law school founded in the United States of America. The school was founded by Tapping Reeve in 1784 after tutoring students, including his brother-in-law, Aaron Burr, in law in the ten years previously and developing a 14-month course of study to prepare students for the Bar exam. Reeve, who later became the Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, hired former student James Gould to assist him in delivering lectures. By the time the school closed in 1833, over 1,100 young men from throughout the country had attended, many of whom went on to have significant influence on political, economic, and legal development of the United States during the antebellum period. Some of the school's most notable students include Burr and John C. Calhoun.^[4]

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litchfield Law School