New DETC accredited law school

I haven't seen any mention of this here, so I thought I would mention it. The DETC has accredited the Abraham Lincoln School of Law. Tuition is $7,500 per year for four years, but I don't know how much of a bargain that really is for law school, considering it is not ABA accredited. That means the only place you can practice law with a JD from the school is California. Still, if you live in California it could be a good deal.

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Some guy just went to court and won his case about being lallowed to sit for the bar in his state. (Was it Penn?) Any who, they had to let him sit for the exam.

 

There are two kinds of unaccredited law schools: DL and B&M.

California is the only state that authorizes unaccredited DL law schools. However, there are a handful of other states, including Massachusetts, that authorize unaccredited B&M law schools.

In Massachusetts, a graduate of an unaccredited California DL law school sued and won the right to take the Bar. But he probably won only because Massachusetts already had a policy of accepting graduates of unaccredited B&M schools.

So the decision means that a state bar may not be able to accept some unaccredited degrees (like B&M ones) while rejecting others (like DL ones). To be fair, the rules about unaccredited degrees need to be consistent.

The problem is that this decision would, at best, only affect those few states that allow unaccredited B&M degrees. The vast majority of states simply reject unaccredited degrees of all kinds (both DL and B&M). That may or may not be a great policy -- but it does treat all unaccredited degrees equally, and so it is legally much stronger than the inconsistent policy in Massachusetts.