Law School Found Out of Compliance

A law school in Texas is facing friction with the American Bar Association.

Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law was found out of compliance with the ABA’s admissions standard requiring law schools to “only admit applicants who appear capable of satisfactorily completing its program of legal education and being admitted to the bar,” the Houston Chronicle reports.

ACTION NEEDED

Thurgood Marshall is required to submit a report to the ABA by April 1st and appear before the Council in May to determine whether it will be imposed sanctions, which may include removal of approval, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Back in November, Texas Southern University announced that an investigation was underway into the school’s admissions process.

And according to a Houston Chronicle investigation, the school had fired the assistant dean of law school admissions, Edward Rene, back in September over concerns about the admissions process under his leadership.

“As a consequence of my oversight, I terminated the assistant dean of admissions,” Law school Dean Joan Bullock wrote Barry Currier, the ABA’s managing director of accreditation and legal education. “I had no trust or confidence in his ability to lead and manage the office because of his failure to follow all the rules and procedures required for transparency and for fair consideration of all applicants in compliance with ABA (standards).”

Sources: Houston Chronicle, ABA, Houston Chronicle