Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
private for-profit law school in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School (AJMLS) is a private law school in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1933 and named for John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. AJMLS is accredited by the American Bar Association.
History
AJMLS was founded in 1933 in Atlanta and was among the first southern law schools to integrate. It received American Bar Association (ABA) approval in 2005. In October 2017, the ABA concluded that the Law School was not in compliance with ABA Standards 301(a), 309(b), and 501(a)/501(b), and in December 2018, the ABA placed the school on probation for "substantial" and "persistent" non-compliance with those standards. At its November 2019 meeting, the Council removed the Law School from probation. On May 15, 2020, the council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar determined AJMLS and nine other ABA law schools had significant noncompliance with Standard 316. This Standard was revised in 2019 to provide that at least 75% of an accredited law school's graduates who took a bar exam must pass one within two years of graduation. On February 26, 2021, the ABA's council posted that the school was now in compliance with the standard.
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