Barry Currier (Former Managing Director), ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar), Comments on Texas and Florida Courts Studying Continued Reliance on the ABA Law School Accreditation Process:

I submitted comments today to the Texas Supreme Court and a Florida Supreme Court Work Group on the question of whether the bar admissions process in those jurisdictions should continue to require graduation from an ABA-approved law school as a condition of eligibility to sit for the bar examination and for admission to practice in the state [Florida comments, Texas comments].

I do not know of other state courts that are considering this question, but one would have to believe that there are or will be others. As I asserted in an earlier post, the argument for some sort of national system is compelling. As I suggested in another post, it is important to have the conversation about the need for reforms in this area, wherever that may lead.

If nothing else, if the Council’s de facto national legal education regulatory system fragments into a number of pieces, the costs of regulation would significantly increase. … [A]s has been the experience with the bar exam where the NCBE emerged as a national solution to limitations on problems of each state maintaining its own bar exam (subjects, question development, grading), one primary system of regulation for law schools, whether at the ABA or elsewhere, would seem to benefit us all.

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