THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA - COMMITTEE OF BAR EXAMINERS/OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS

180 Howard Street • San Francisco, CA 94105-1639 • (415) 538-2300 - 1149 South Hill Street • Los Angeles, CA 90015-2299 • (213) 765-1500

REGISTERED UNACCREDITED FIXED-FACILITY LAW SCHOOLS IN CALIFORNIA The following institutions are currently registered by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California (Committee) as unaccredited fixed-facility law schools. A fixed-facility law school is a law school that conducts its instruction principally in physical classroom facilities. A fixed-facility law school must require classroom attendance of its students for a minimum of 270 hours a year for four years.

This list is published for informational purposes only. Please refer to the Unaccredited Law School Rules for the requirements for registration as an unaccredited fixed-facility law school. Neither the Committee nor the State Bar’s Office of Admissions will advise prospective students on the advantages or disadvantages of studying law at a registered unaccredited fixed-facility law school or the quality of the legal education programs provided by the listed schools. Prospective students should refer to available resources such as the law school pass/fail statistics on the bar examination and First-Year Law Students’ Examination (available on the Admissions portion of The State Bar of California’s Web site at www.calbar.ca.gov/admissions), current and former students, pre-legal advisers located on college or university campuses, and other career counselors, among others.

Applicants seeking admission to practice law in California will receive credit for their law study at a registered unaccredited fixed-facility law school only if such study is completed in accordance with Title 4, Division 1 of the Rules of the State Bar of California (Admissions Rules) . Students attending registered unaccredited fixed-facility law schools are required to take the First-Year Law Students’ Examination and must pass it within three administrations after first becoming eligible to take the examination, which is upon completion of the first year of law study, in order to receive credit for law study undertaken up to the point of passage. If the examination is passed on a subsequent attempt, only one year of law study credit will be given toward meeting the legal education requirements needed to qualify to take the California Bar Examination.

People's College of Law

660 So. Bonnie Brae Street

Los Angeles, CA 90057

(213) 483-0083

www.peoplescollegeoflaw.edu

Unaccredited Law Schools in California

The lists below are published for informational purposes only. Please refer to the Unaccredited Law School Rules for the requirements for registration as:  a fixed facility law school

Neither the Committee nor the State Bar's Office of Admissions will advise prospective students on the advantages or disadvantages of studying law through correspondence, distance learning or fixed facility law schools, or the quality of the legal education programs provided by the listed schools.

Prospective students should refer to available resources such as the law school pass/fail statistics on the bar examination and First-Year Law Students' Examination current and former students, pre-legal advisers located on college or university campuses, and other career counselors, among others.

Applicants seeking admission to practice law in California will receive credit for their law study at a registered unaccredited law school only if such study is completed in accordance with the Rules Regulating Admission to Practice Law in California.

Students attending registered unaccredited law schools are required to take the First-Year Law Students' Examination and must pass it within three administrations after first becoming eligible to take the examination, which is upon completion of the first year of law study, in order to receive credit for law study undertaken up to the point of passage.

If the examination is passed on a subsequent attempt, only one year of law study credit will be given toward meeting the legal education requirements needed to qualify to take the California Bar Examination.