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Graduate of Non-ABA-Accredited Law School Can Take Massachusetts Bar Exam
Posted Nov 21, 2008, 02:26 pm CST
By Martha Neil
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has waived the usual required that all takers of the state bar examination must be graduates of an ABA-accredited law school for a licensed California attorney who got his law degree in 2004 from Concord Law School, a non-ABA-accredited online institution.
Describing Ross Mitchell as an individual who achieved an "exemplary degree of success" in law school, the court voted 6-1 in a decision released yesterday to allow Mitchell--and, at least potentially, other online law school graduates--to take the state bar. However, it "noted that the exception is limited to those with strong records in competitive programs," reports GateHouse News Service
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