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Legal Education

Apr. 14, 2020

Washington DC VA to California-accredited law schools: Your service to veterans is no longer wanted

In the midst of the unprecedented economic disruption caused by the coronavirus and the governor’s state-wide stay-at home order, the Washington D.C. office of the Veterans Administration Department of Education has issued a new policy that will deny California veterans and their eligible dependents access to graduate legal education at California’s 17 state-accredited law schools.

Mitchel L. Winick

President and Dean
Monterey College of Law

Mitchel is president and dean of a non-profit California accredited law school system that includes Monterey College of Law, San Luis Obispo College of Law, and Kern County College of Law. He was one of eight deans invited by the California Supreme Court to an informal meeting in October 2019 to discuss concerns about the California bar exam. He is former chair of the Committee of Bar Examiners Rules Advisory Committee and a former member of the Law School Council representing the California Accredited Law Schools.

In the midst of the unprecedented economic disruption caused by the coronavirus and the governor's state-wide stay-at home order, the Washington D.C. office of the Veterans Administration Department of Education has issued a new policy that will deny California veterans and their eligible dependents access to graduate legal education at California's 17 state-accredited law schools. Following the closing of CSAAVE, the California servicing agency for California veteran...

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