The standard asks Florida to rethink the ABA AKREDITION

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The standard asks Florida to rethink the ABA AKREDITION

By Julianne Hill

March 13, 2025, 15:55 PM CDT

Citing continuous controversy about diversity and integration into the approvals in legal faculties, the Supreme Court of Florida created a working group to rethink their requirement that law students complete an graduate of a abacredth school in order to sit in Florida for the bar test and to develop options for alternatives.

“Appropriate questions about the ABA's accreditation standards on racial and ethnic diversity of right schools and the active political commitment of the ABA,” says an release on the website of the state's Supreme Court. The working group must submit a report by September 30, according to the order from Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz on Wednesday.

“We welcome the opportunity to discuss the many ways of how our accreditation of the right schools promotes the common goals of the court and the council to offer excellent cost -effective legal training. Creation of effective, ethical and responsible lawyers; And protects the public, ”wrote Jennifer Rosato Perea, the ABA managing director for accreditation and legal education, to the ABA Journal.

The move of Florida comes as a council of the ABA section of legal training and the admission to the Bar Association, how to adapt a suspended accreditation standard that focuses on diversity, justice and inclusion. This was followed by the Executive Order of the White House in order to reduce the efforts or the risk of risk, whereby the decision of the Supreme Court of 2023 of the Supreme Court of Races, which eliminated racial approvals, corresponds to the Supreme Court of 2023.

Since then there has been a lengthy and profound view of Standard 206, which was renamed “Access to legal education and work” in recent suggestions in order to determine exactly what the judgment means for the approval and employment of right schools.

Some states allow the candidate to check the legal chamber or to pursue other licensed ward without taking a degree on a legal faculty recognized by ABA. According to the State Bar of California Statistics, graduates of the non -accredited graduates of right schools are not so good in the Californian examination.

“If Florida follows this path, he can create a trap for students: You will pay a lot for legal training and will not be able to pass the legal chamber,” says Deborah Jones Merritt, Professor Emerita at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, which serves as a consultant by several state bars, taking into account the reform of the bar test.

But Sean Silverman, owner of Silverman Bar Exam & Lsat Tutoring, says that he does not think that it is wrong to take students from non-ABA schools to take the bar test. But in the Florida bar there is a bit of irony if you consider stronger inclusion in this regard while pressing back on an integrative philosophy of the ABA. “

In February, the Section Council applied to suspend the enforcement of Standard 206 – which is still officially the title “Diversity and Inclusion” – until August 31, since it overtakes his wording. No measures are planned before its meeting in May, and a new draft could be presented to the ABA House of Delegates at the ABA annual meeting in August.

But the US general Prosecutor Pam Bondi wants the council to continue – and now. Last month she wrote to the Council and explained that he had to abolish the standard “immediately” or risk the right to accredit right schools.

On March 10, David A. Brennen, Chairman of the Council, sent a letter to Bondi. “The Council has and will not ask for a legal faculty to violate the law to comply with its accreditation standards,” he wrote. “Recognition as A [Department of Education] The accreditator is a privilege and a great responsibility that we take seriously to ensure that graduates of accredited legal schools are prepared to be effective ethical and responsible members of the legal profession. “

Bondi's letter follows a letter from Craig Trainor on February 14, the incumbent deputy secretary for civil rights at the Ministry of Education, which ordered the elimination of “racial preferences” in registrations, attitudes and other areas by the end of February.

The bar in Florida rejected a statement, and a spokesman for Florida's Supreme Court wrote to the ABA journal that the publication and the administrative regulations “speak for itself”.

According to the National Conference of Board Examiners, there are 12 right schools in Florida in Florida, and the state tests test the fourth largest number of bar candidates every year. In December, Florida's lawyer removed the language language from his organizational policy after the Supreme Court commissioned the initiatives to finance initiatives for the financing of the financing and inclusion.

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The bar in Florida lets the diversity and inclusion language drop from its internal politics

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