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The State Bar's predecessor was a voluntary state bar association known as the California Bar Association. [8]: xiii The leader of the effort to establish an integrated (official) bar was Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan, who first proposed the concept at the California Bar Association's Santa Barbara convention in September 1917, and provided the California Bar Association with a copy of a Quebec ...
In addition, individual state legislatures or bar examiners, like the State Bar of California, may maintain a separate accreditation system which is open to non-ABA accredited schools. The California State Bar also accredits law schools, which the California Committee of Bar Examiners (CBE) recognizes.
In order to evaluate the "qualitative soundness of a law school's program of legal education," the State Bar of California requires all California-Accredited Law schools to provide cumulative bar passage rates for the previous five years. For 2018-2022, SJCL's cumulative five-year bar pass rate was 76.3%. [8]
Number 12 for diversity among law schools (tied for first in California with the USC Law School) [13] Number 133 overall of 196 ABA approved law schools in the United States as ranked by U.S. News & World Report [3] Princeton Review "Best 170 Law Schools" (2008) – number 22 overall among law schools for average starting salary [14]
This category includes law schools in California that are approved (including provisionally approved) by the American Bar Association. It also includes law schools that are no longer open. It also includes law schools that are no longer open.
From 1993 to 2022, the school was accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners [8] of the State Bar of California. As of July 1, 2022, the school reported that it did not meet the State Bar of California five-year bar passage rate of 40 percent for state-accredited law schools and as a result, the school's accreditation was terminated on ...
SFLS had a five-year cumulative bar pass rate of 36% from 2017 to 2021, below the 40% threshold established by the State Bar of California. As a result, the school was placed on probation until July 1, 2022. The State Bar extended the school's probation until July 1, 2023, after it posted a bar passage rate of 35.4% for period ending in 2022.
The Ventura campus was founded in 1969 and the Santa Barbara campus was added in 1975. As of 2007, the colleges have over 1,600 alumni. [4] In 2010, The Colleges of Law joined The Community Solution, [5] an integrated nonprofit system of colleges and universities. [6]