Re: Concord Law School Grad Passes Massachussetts Bar Exam.

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Now now little one, don't be jealous and spiteful. Your true colors are showing,
learn to be nice and play nice. Your colleagues are watching you.

On 8/22/09, Congratulations wrote:
> This fantastic news, Concord graduate gets admitted
> it Calif Bar amd Mass. Bar. Also it was reported
> that West School of Law graduate was promoted to night
> shift manager at Burger King !
>
> On 8/22/09, Chu wrote:
>> The National Law Journal is reporting that Ross E. Mitchell, a graduate of
>> the Concord Law School has passed the Massachusetts bar. I was interested
> to
>> see that he has also passed the notoriously difficult California bar exam.
>> As is reported below, Mitchell sued successfully to be allowed to sit for
>> the Massachusetts bar exam.
>>
>> Yeah, That's the Ticket!: Online Law School Grad Who Sued to Take Bar
>> Gets His License
>>
>> By Sheri Qualters | The National Law Journal
>>
>> BOSTON — An online law school graduate who sued the Supreme Judicial
>> Court of Massachusetts for the opportunity to take that state's bar
>> examination is now a newly minted Massachusetts lawyer.
>>
>> The Boston Herald first reported that Ross E. Mitchell is the first
>> Massachusetts lawyer with an exclusively online legal education. Mitchell
>> was sworn in on June 22 and has 90 days to register with the Massachusetts
>> Board of Bar Overseers, according to the court.
>>
>> Mitchell, a Newton, Mass.-based independent computer consultant, said
> he
>> views his legal credentials as "another tool in his consulting arsenal."
>>
>> "I don't plan to hang out a shingle per se," Mitchell said. "What I see
>> myself doing is pretty much making myself available to take on interesting
>> projects you need to be lawyer to do."
>>
>> Last November, Mitchell won his case against the state's Board of Bar
>> Examiners, which denied his bid to bypass a requirement that U.S.-trained
>> applicants be graduates of an American Bar Association-accredited law
>> school. Mitchell v. Board of Bar Examiners, No. SJC-10157 (Mass.). The
> court
>> allowed Mitchell to sit for the bar because the ABA is mulling changes to
>> its accreditation standards.
>>
>> Last September, the ABA launched a comprehensive review of its
> standards
>> for the approval of law schools. Currently, ABA-approved schools can only
>> allow graduates to take up to 12 credit hours of classes online.
>>
>> Mitchell, who was a pro se litigant in his Supreme Judicial Court case,
>> graduated from Concord Law School. Mitchell has also passed the California
>> general bar examination and the Multistate Professional Responsibility
>> Examination, and he was admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of
>> Appeals for the 1st Circuit.
>>
>> In the spring of 2008, Mitchell was also one of four Concord Law
>> graduates sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court's bar.
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>>
>> On 8/22/09, Linda wrote:
>>> Has Lincoln given up on DETC? A few months ago they were saying "any
>>> day now" and currently they say nothing. How many times can a school be
>>> turned down and still be listed by DETC as an applicant?
>>>
>>> Linda
>>>
>>> On 8/20/09, Anthony wrote:
>>>> I've got an application into Taft and will make the move if they
>>>> accept me. I was accepted two years ago but went to another school.
>>>> But since Taft started offering federal student aid it's not as easy
>>>> to get in.
>>>>
>>>> Anthony
>>>>
>>>> On 8/19/09, Tran wrote:
>>>>> Are you transferring to Taft or Concord? I heard they'll accept one
>>>>> year of transfer credit from an unaccredited school if you apply
>>>>> right after passing the Baby Bar. I'm considering making the jump.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/19/09, Scott wrote:
>>>>>> I passed on my first try, along with 15 others from Abraham
>>>>>> Lincoln University. Not sure what the pass rate was but the lady
>>>>>> on the phone at the Bar told me the numbers were low when I called
>>>>>> for my results.