Atlanta's John Marshall Law School has been provisionally approved by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association since 2005. The Section of Legal Education may be contacted at 321 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60610 or by phone at 312/988-6738.
What is the difference between attending an ABA-approved law school and a non-ABA approved law school?
The ABA Standards for the Approval of Law Schools assure that students who attend ABA-approved law schools will receive a sound program of legal education. Schools not approved by the ABA need not comply with these Standards and the ABA can make no representation about the quality of the program of legal education offered at non-approved law schools.
All states recognize that graduation from an ABA-approved law school satisfies the legal education requirements that a person must meet to be eligible to sit for the bar examination. In many states, a person may not sit for the bar examination unless that person holds a J.D. degree from an ABA-approved law school. Other states have additional requirements that a student must meet in order to qualify to sit for that state's examination, including allowing some graduates of non-ABA approved law schools to sit for that state's bar examination.
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What is the status of students who attend or graduate from a law school that is not ABA approved or is provisionally ABA approved?
Individuals who graduate from provisionally approved school are considered by the ABA to be students attending an ABA-approved law school. It does not matter that the school was not approved when the student first enrolled in the school or that the school loses its approval subsequent to an individual's graduation. Most states follow this policy. However, students should always check individual state requirements concerning their ability to take the bar exam.
We emailed questions to Donna a couple weeks ago and she has yet to respond! Is she hiding something?
Here again are the questions:
1. When did you graduate from law school.
2. What law school did you graduate from?
3. Was the law school you graduated from approved by the ABA?
4. How did you get permission to take the law exam if you had not graduated from an ABA-law school?
5. Are you a qualified lawyer?
Provisionally accredited law school grads can take the Bar Exam in West Virginia.
Donna took the law exam in WV five (5) years BEFORE THE SCHOOL WAS PROVISIONALLY ACCREDITED. It is still provisional after four years. (It appears to be basically a commuter school (night school)
Well Norm, looks like your just going to have to turn up the heat, it appears we are in for a long 4 years with the current administration. It appears to me you were barking up the wrong tree during election time. Hindsite is 20/20?????
