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Graduate of Non-ABA-Accredited Law School Can Take Massachusetts Bar Exam
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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