Posts by David Frakt

Should Florida Coastal be Sanctioned by the ABA? As I noted in my last post, Florida Coastal recently received a letter from the ABA with a finding of non-compliance for ...

I follow law school news pretty closely, especially when it comes to ABA actions with respect to bottom-feeder law schools, so it came as a great surprise to me learn ...

Just when things in Jacksonville were starting to return to normal after Hurricane Irma, another disaster has struck, and this time, it's man-made.  Like Irma, this disaster, popularly known as ...

Earlier this week, Florida released the February 2017 bar exam results for first-time takers from Florida ABA-Accredited Law Schools.  Florida Coastal was the lowest by a considerable margin.  Twelve of ...

In an interview with a local television station, Interim Dean Scott Broyles, who recently replaced Jay Conison, made a truthful, and potentially damaging, admission.  According to the story,  Broyles said…

  Last week, Charlotte School of Law had a pretty good week. Dean Jay Conison was fired and returned to the faculty, but since he wasn't assigned any classes this semester,…

Yesterday, the ABA announced that it was placing Arizona Summit Law School on probation. (See ABA Journal story here.)  Arizona Summit is following on the heels of its sister school,…

I have previously written about how Charlotte School of Law recently declared a financial emergency and implemented a “Reduction in Force” or RIF, firing about half the faculty with less ...

On February 3, 2017, Dean Jay Conison sent the following update about its proposed Teach-out plan to Charlotte's dwindling student body (reportedly down to 268 from 712 this fall, according…

The ABA House of Delegates vote on the proposed new bar passage standard for law schools, ABA Standard 316, at the ABA mid-year meeting this week in Miami. This is an…