STATE BAR RELUCTANTLY SUPPORTS LAW SCHOOL PROPOSAL
Las Vegas Review Journal Saturday April 6, 1996 5B.
by Ed Vogel
The State Bar of Nevada has reluctantly agreed to support a Supreme
Court proposal that would allow an unaccredited law school to open in Las
Vegas next year.
But Franny Foresman, the state bar president, said Friday her
organization wants stiff conditions place on Western State University College
of Law before it accepts students.
Western State wants the Supreme Court on April 23 to agree to allow
graduates of its first five classes totake the state bar examination.
....
Foreman fileld documents with the Supreme Court this week in which she
said her organization would support a plan where the first two classes of the
school could take the exam.
....
In the court documents, Forsman reiterated that the bar association does
not want the court to change the rule prohibiting graduates of unaccredited
schools from taking the bar exam. Instead she proposes the court issue an
order granting the college a waiver of the rule.
....
Forsman, a federal public defender, said [Supreme Court Justice] Rose
wrote her last month and asked her to propose conditions that would make
Western State acceptable to the state bar.
"The court has told us to come up with conditions or they would do it
without us." she said.
Western State, which operates three law schools in California, would
become the only law school in Nevada.
But the state is in the midst of a study to determine whether toplace
its own law school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Watching this with interest. I have this ever-growing file at work on this.
Also wrote to the _Nevada Lawyer_ as a private citizen in February 1996.
Ann Jarrell
Law Librarian
Clark County Law Library
Las Vegas NV 89155-7340
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