The Law School Admission Council helps prospective law students with the admission process.
The Law School Admission Council is a corporation that provides services for those who want to enter law school. There are over 200 law schools that work in tandem with LSAC to provide testing and counseling to law school applicants. The non-profit company provides grants for students, prepares tests and guides and works with international law students.
American Bar Association
The American Bar Association lists 200 approved schools and each school on the list works with the Law School Admission Council. These schools met the ABA criteria for recognition as reputable schools. If you sign up with LSAC, any one of the law schools on the ABA list qualifies as a professional school. Advisers for LSAC help you prepare for the Law School Admission Test and provide you with valuable resources for preparing your law school packet. For a complete list of ABA-approved schools please visit http://www.lsac.org/JD/choose/law-school-links.asp.
Canadian Law Schools
There are 16 schools in Canadian provinces that work with LSAC. In order to be accepted by LSAC each Canadian school must first meet the requirements of the government agency, province or territorial law society in which it resides. For a full list of Canadian schools approved by LSAC, please visit http://www.lsac.org/JD/choose/law-school-links.asp#canada.
Judge Advocate General
The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School is the only school on the ABA-approved list that offers a resident graduate course to its officers. The JAG school provides a "specialized" program for officers that extends past the first law degree. It is the only government law program recognized by the ABA in 2011.
Provisionally Approved Schools
As of 2011, the only school on the American Bar Association provisionally approved schools list is the University of California-Irvine School of Law. According to Concordia University-Portland, Oregon, a school must be operating for one year prior to applying for provisional status. After the first year of operation, the school files before October 15th of the current year in order to undergo an evaluation by the American Bar Association. After proving that the school is compliant with the requirements, it remains on provisional status for a minimum of three years before receiving the ABA-approved status.
Additional Schools
Other international schools and law schools not approved by the American Bar Association are still approved by LSAC. As of 2011, there are law schools in Armenia, India, Hungary and Australia and 40 other U.S.-based schools that LSAC uses. For a complete list of international and non-ABA-approved schools, please visit http://www.lsac.org/JD/choose/law-school-links.asp.
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