UNT Dallas law school gets second chance to earn accreditation

[TexasTowelie]

The University of North Texas at Dallas’ law school will get a second chance to earn the accreditation that would allow its graduates to practice law in the state, the school learned Wednesday.

The decision, which is expected to be announced on the American Bar Association’s website on Thursday, comes after a bar committee recommended in August that UNT Dallas not receive preliminary accreditation. That would have been devastating for the school, and meant that students who graduated from the two-year-old program wouldn’t have been able to take the bar.

Wednesday’s decision remands the question of accreditation back to the committee. It doesn’t quite save those students’ careers, but it also doesn’t put them in any more peril. It isn’t immediately clear how long the re-review will take or which particular aspects will be reconsidered.

The school’s first class is expected to graduate this spring.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/dallas/article115287923.html

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1. Ouch

[TexasTowelie]

2. It will be interesting to compare the percentages

about how many students pass the bar to the other law schools in Texas, particularly the South Texas College of Law and Texas Southern University. The students there should be able to take the bar exam despite the accreditation issues. However, it should be noted that there are too many attorneys in Texas and many will graduate law school to find difficulty obtaining employment.