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Western State accredited

By Richard Binder

The American Bar Association has granted Western State University College of Law full accreditation, giving the state 19 fully accredited law schools.

The school first won provisional accreditation from the ABA in 1998, but did not secure full approval within the subsequent five years, due to low bar passage rates. The school's first-time bar passage rate increased from 23% in 2005 to nearly 65% in 2008, which remains lower for ABA-accredited law schools in California but lessens the gap.  College of Law dean William Adams says the school will continue to focus on improving its passage rates. 

Final approval for the accreditation of the for-profit Fullerton, Calif., school was given by the Council of the Legal Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar during the ABA's annual convention in Chicago.

Full story at NLJ.com.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).