In the struggle of a fledgling Texas law school to obtain ABA accreditation is a message for others on the issue of what schools should be doing to educate and train the next generation of lawyers.
The University of North Dallas School of Law ran into disapproval from the ABA solons for such things as low LSAT/GPA scores of the incoming classes, poor academic performance by a large cohort of students and the likelihood that many of its graduates would struggle to pass the bar. Concerns were voiced that students were being welcomed in only to fail, kind of a consumer protection issue. It’s sort of a self-fulfilling prediction though, as without ABA approval, none of the graduates can even apply to most bars.
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