Nelson Locke thinks he might have inspired some of this. The 75-year-old lawyer spent three years asking the Texas Board of Law Examiners to admit him to the state bar without requiring him to take ...

July 8 (Reuters) - Dropping the requirement that Texas attorneys graduate from an American Bar Association-accredited law school would impede lawyer mobility and increase costs, law deans warned in a ...

A panel appointed by Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Muniz has released a report outlining potential alternatives to the decades-long practice of relying solely on the American Bar ...

Dec 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday called the American Bar Association’s accreditation of law schools a “monopoly” that increases the cost of a law degree and limits the ...

A group of Texas law school deans is urging the state Supreme Court to uphold American Bar Association accreditation standards for public law schools. The state’s highest court announced in April that ...

Florida's Attorney General is urging the state's Supreme Court to end its relationship with the American Bar Association. The move follows a similar decision by the Texas Supreme Court to handle law ...

The American Bar Association no longer will have oversight of law schools in Texas. The state had relied on the ABA for law school accreditation for more than four decades. Texas is now the first ...

Dozens of law schools offer partly online J.D. programs. These programs are often low-residency, blending online instruction ...