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But the news is that Lincoln Memorial University is developing a new law school Knoxville Tennessee.

The proposed Duncan School of Law received Tennessee Board of Law Examiner approval earlier this month. The approval will allow all of its graduates to be eligible to sit for the Bar Exam in Tennessee. LMU has already submitted a letter of intent to pursue accreditation for the proposed law school to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC) and submitted a formal Substantive Change Request to the COC this week. Upon approval, LMU will admit students and begin classes in August 2009. The inaugural class will consist of approximately 75 part-time students. The full-time program will begin Fall 2010 and will consist of another 125 students.

School of Law will be named for Tennessee Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr.  Duncan currently serves as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure?s Highways and Transit Subcommittee. He also holds seats on the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He has served in Congress since 1988. Prior to his election to Congress, he served as a State Trial Judge, having been appointed by Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander in 1981. He started his career in law in 1973 with a private law practice in Knoxville with Zane Daniel. Duncan graduated from the University of Tennessee and The George Washington University National Law Center. He is married to the former Lynn Hawkins and they have four children and five grandchildren.