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State Bar & Bar Associations

Dec. 3, 2010

Foreign Law School Accreditation Proposal Draws Controversy

As many as 5,000 foreign-trained law school graduates take the bar exam each year. Yet an American Bar Association proposal to accredit law schools in foreign countries so that those students could practice here has generated controversy.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


As many as 5,000 foreign-trained law school graduates in the United States take the bar exam each year.


Yet an American Bar Association proposal to accredit law schools in foreign countries so that those students could practice here has generated significant controversy.


ABA accreditation is required for a law school's graduates to become lawyers in most states, though not in Cali...

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