Legal Writing

University-wide Re-accreditation as a Catalyst for Best Practices
Law schools that are units within a larger university structure will be a part of the university-wide re-accreditation process. It is not unlike the ABA re-accreditation process. It involves a self-study, standards, a site visit and a report...

China-Based Law School Will Be First to Make Bid for ABA Accreditation
Leigh Jones reports on the National Law Journal: Peking University School of Transnational Law wants to become the first foreign law school accredited by the American Bar Association ...

Australia will raise nursing home accreditation standards
Accreditation standards for the nation's nursing homes are to be toughened to improve infection control in the wake of the deaths of 10 residents of a NSW nursing home from gastroenteritis...

Members of Congress link accreditation and decline in African-American enrollment in law school
The story is, unfortunately, only for subscribers. But here's the first sentence: "Members of Congress are pushing for a detailed study of the accreditation process for the nation's law schools, claiming it may be partly to blame for a decline...

Law Schools in Jeopardy of Failing ABA's New 75% Bar Passage Accreditation Standard
On Saturday, I blogged the ABA's expected approval, at its meeting this week in Los Angeles, of a new objective bar passage standard for law school accreditation. Under the proposal, over a five-year period, 75% of a school's graduates must...

ABA Accreditation & the Bar Passage Rule Debate
During the past year, the hottest topic concerning the ABA accreditation of law schools has been the debate over the bar passage rule, Interpretation 301-6. The final version of the rule was adopted at the February 2008 mid-winter ABA meeting...

KeyBank USA
alleging the bank offered loans for fraudulent vocational schools.

Kamehameha Schools
$7 million non-native Hawaiian racial discrimination settlement.