Accreditation & Standards
31 ABA Journal Accreditation & Standards articles.
The ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has found that the embattled Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law remains out of compliance with a key admissions standard. The section council has also asked the school to appear at its May meeting as it determines "whether to impose sanctions, including removal of approval."
Mar 4, 2020 1:02 PM CST
William Adams, the deputy managing director of the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, will replace Barry Currier as the organization's managing director of accreditation and legal education, starting April 6. Currier announced in
summer 2019 that he would be stepping down from the position.
Mar 3, 2020 10:45 AM CST
The bar passage rate for first-time test-takers has increased by nearly 5 percentage points, according to data released Monday by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Feb 18, 2020 2:41 PM CST
Concordia University School of Law, a Boise, Idaho, institution with new ABA accreditation, had a 100% bar passage rate for its
class of 2016, but its future as of Monday is unknown, following the announcement that its parent school, the Concordia University campus in Portland, Oregon, is closing.
Feb 11, 2020 3:34 PM CST
The president of Texas Southern University may be out of a job after TSU regents alleged that he failed to promptly report information about an admissions scandal at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law.
Feb 7, 2020 2:43 PM CST
A teach-out plan for Thomas Jefferson School of Law, allowing limited accreditation until the end of the spring 2023 term, has been approved by the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Jan 13, 2020 11:43 AM CST
Judge threatens to jail Harvey Weinstein after he uses cellphone in court
On Tuesday, a Manhattan judge threatened to jail former film producer Harvey Weinstein for using his cellphone in…
Jan 7, 2020 2:58 PM CST
Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School has had its probation removed, and its application to convert to a nonprofit was accepted, according to
notice posted by the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Dec 16, 2019 11:50 AM CST
Florida Coastal School of Law is out of compliance with two sections of Standard 202, which deals with program resources, according to
a public notice posted by the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Dec 13, 2019 2:46 PM CST
The total number of students at ABA-accredited law schools rose slightly this year. However, the number of first-year students decreased from 2018 to 2019, according to ABA data
released Thursday.
Dec 12, 2019 3:29 PM CST
The University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law is out of compliance with three sections of Standard 202, which deals with program resources, according to a recent finding from the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Dec 11, 2019 2:48 PM CST
AG Barr concludes Jeffrey Epstein’s death due to ‘perfect storm of screw-ups’
U.S. Attorney General William Barr says he initially had suspicions about multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein’s jailhouse death, but…
Nov 25, 2019 4:09 PM CST
For a small number of schools found to be out of compliance with an ABA accreditation admissions standard, some have concerns that even with bar pass rate improvements, they still may not meet a new standard that requires pass rates of at least 75% for graduates who took a bar exam in the past two years.
Nov 21, 2019 10:21 AM CST
The University of La Verne in California, which had a first-time bar passage rate of 31.49%
for 2018, has assembled a committee to consider the future of its law school, following a recent change that tightened bar passage requirements for ABA-accredited law schools.
Oct 30, 2019 2:00 PM CDT
Florida Coastal law student sues school for allegedly toughening graduation standard
A law student at Florida Coastal School of Law claims in a lawsuit that the school made it more…
Sep 17, 2019 4:05 PM CDT
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