July 31, 2011
In Tight Job Market, Some Want Bar Association to Toughen Law-School Accreditation Standards
As the American Bar Association prepares for its annual meeting in Toronto this week, it finds itself under increasing pressure to tighten the spigot on the steady flow of law schools it has been accrediting.
Federal regulators and disillusioned law-school graduates have questioned whether the association's standards are rigorous enough at a time when record numbers of law-school graduates are competing for a shrinking number of legal jobs.
Much of the critics' focus has been
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