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Despite 3 Years Of Noncompliance With 75% Bar Passage Accreditation Standard, ABA Grants Western Michigan 3-Year Extension Of Time To Achieve Compliance

Paul Caron
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Thomas Cooley Logo (2017)Despite not meeting ABA Accreditation Standard 316 (“At least 75 percent of a law school’s graduates in a calendar year who sat for a bar examination must have passed a bar examination administered within two years of their date of graduation”) in 2020 (66.0%), 2021 (62.3%), and 2022 (59.5%), the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar granted Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s request for a three-year extension to achieve compliance.

ABA Journal, After Repeat Failures to Meet Bar Pass Standard, ABA Gives Cooley Law School Extension

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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