Whittier Law School Reportedly Remains On Probation For 2 More Years

  As Adjunct Prof Blog reported here and here, Whittier Law School's 2 year probationary status was up August 9, 2007 which prompted a lawsuit by Whittier after the ABA threatened to revoke its accreditation. As we reported, Whittier later withdrew that lawsuit.

Whittiergate.com , which appears to be an anti-Whittier site, is reporting that Whittier's probationary status as been extended two more years. If true, that certainly is somewhat good news. My understanding is that graduates of probationary law schools can take the same bar exams as graduates of fully accredited schools. The ABA web site has not been updated to reflect what happened at the August 2007 meeting. Additionally, Whittier's web site does not mention anything about their probationary status after August 2007.

Come on Whittier, while I have been supportive of you in the past, you need to fully disclose what happened during the August 2007 ABA meeting regarding your ABA status. You should also post a copy of any relevant documents. Your training future lawyers. I am sure your professors would advise your students to read the relevant documents themselves and not rely on third party reports.

I have previously sent a link to my posting about Whittier to Dean Cogan and got no response. I will send a link to this posting with the hope that Whittier takes some action immediately. If Dean Cogan responds, I will post it.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein