Juris Doctor - JD
Categories: Education
A law degree. A "doctor" of jury-ing, or something like that, as it derives from the Latin.
But that's it. A JD is a law degree the same way an MD is a medical degree and a PhD is a doctorate in whatever arcane, narrow area you've studied and written about.
Most semi-pretentious lawyers put the JD after their names on their email signature thingys. To get one, you go to laugh school, usually taking 3 years for the pleasure. Then you pass a State Bar Exam, which carries a hierarchy in America. That is, if you pass the New York Bar (the hardest exam), you get reciprocity in pretty much every state, and it allows you to be your own realtor when you buy a home.
Ah, the perks.