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Law Practice

Feb. 25, 2012

State Bar takes a hard look at non-JD degrees

A common complaint about California's unaccredited law schools is that many of their graduates can't pass the bar exam. Now, some of those schools want to award law degrees that don't qualify students to take the bar exam in the first place


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A common complaint about California's unaccredited law schools is that many of their graduates can't pass the bar exam. Now some of those schools want to award law degrees that don't qualify students to take the bar exam in the first place.


The development has the State Bar - which regulates the unaccredited schools - in a quandary. On the one hand, educating people who don't wa...

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