Newer law school in Florida gets provisional accreditation from the ABA

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Newer regulation college in Florida will get provisional accreditation from the ABA

By Debra Cassens Weiss

March 5, 2024, 11:12 am CST

A regulation college that opened in Jacksonville, Florida, in August 2022 has obtained provisional accreditation from the ABA, paving the best way for its graduates to take the bar examination.

The ABA Part of Authorized Training and Admissions to the Bar granted provisional accreditation to the Jacksonville College Faculty of Regulation in Florida at a gathering Feb. 22 and 23, based on a bit memo and a regulation college press launch.

Regulation.com, Above the Regulation, the Florida Instances-Union and Reuters have protection.

The regulation college utilized for accreditation in March 2023, the earliest doable date. The varsity’s inaugural August 2022 class had 14 regulation college students, based on Reuters. The subsequent yr, 26 new college students enrolled.

“We felt a heavy duty to pursue and attain accreditation earlier than our inaugural college students graduated,” mentioned Nick Allard, the founding regulation dean, within the press launch. “And we met that formidable aim.”

Allard instructed the Florida Instances-Union that provisional accreditation “is an important, if not essential, milestone,” and it’s “a giant, large deal.”

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