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Northern Virginia Law School at 4105 Duke Street, in Alexandria, Virginia

Northern Virginia Law School was a law school in northern Virginia from the 1980s to the 1990s. [1] It was last located at 4105 Duke Street, in Alexandria, Virginia, [2] and was founded by Dean Alfred Avins, J.S.D., Ph.D. [3] It had degree granting authority accreditation from the Virginia Council of Higher Education to confer the Juris Doctor degree [4] and for a limited time its graduates were permitted to sit for the Virginia Bar Exam. Primarily a weekend law school, [5] it was founded as the District of Columbia Law School [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] in the late 1970s, holding classes in the historic Colorado Building, 1341 G Street N.W. in Washington DC, before its move to Virginia in 1980. [11] [12] It housed the Dean Alfred Avins Law Library, an extensive book collection of the dean that contained over 45,000 legal volumes, [13] but had to close after unsuccessful attempts at obtaining full and permanent accreditation. [14] [15]

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  2. ↑ "Northern Virginia Law School v. City of Alexandria, 680 F. Supp. 222 (E.D. Va. 1988)".
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