Legislation Faculties
Newer legislation college in Florida will get provisional accreditation from the ABA
The ABA Part of Authorized Schooling and Admissions to the Bar granted provisional accreditation to the Jacksonville College School of Legislation in Florida at a gathering final month. (Photograph by Excel23, CC-BY-SA-4.0, by way of Wikimedia Commons)
A legislation college that opened in Jacksonville, Florida, in August 2022 has obtained provisional accreditation from the ABA, paving the best way for its graduates to take the bar examination.
The ABA Part of Authorized Schooling and Admissions to the Bar granted provisional accreditation to the Jacksonville College School of Legislation in Florida at a gathering Feb. 22 and 23, in line with a section memo and a legislation college press release.
Law.com, Above the Law, the Florida Times-Union and Reuters have protection.
The legislation college utilized for accreditation in March 2023, the earliest attainable date. The varsity’s inaugural August 2022 class had 14 legislation college students, in line with Reuters. The following 12 months, 26 new college students enrolled.
“We felt a heavy accountability to pursue and attain accreditation earlier than our inaugural college students graduated,” stated Nick Allard, the founding legislation dean, within the press launch. “And we met that formidable objective.”
Allard instructed the Florida Occasions-Union that provisional accreditation “is a vital, if not essential, milestone,” and it’s “an enormous, massive deal.”
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