San Francisco Law School

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San Francisco Law School
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Parent school Alliant International University
Established1909
School typeFor-profit private
Dean Katherine Van Tassel
Location San Francisco, California, U.S.
37°46′22″N122°25′21″W / 37.77278°N 122.42250°W / 37.77278; -122.42250
Enrollment115 (part-time)
Faculty29 (including Adjunct faculty)
USNWR rankingNot ranked
Bar pass rate7% (1/14) (July 2022 1st time takers) [1]
Website www.alliant.edu/sfls/

San Francisco Law School is a private, for-profit law school in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest evening law school in the Western United States.

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The school became non-profit in 1941 and moved to Haight Street in 1968, where it would remain for almost 50 years before relocating to its present campus on Beach Street, near Fisherman's Wharf. The law school offers a four-year, part-time evening program leading to a Juris Doctor degree. In July 2010, the law school completed a merger to become a for-profit, graduate school of Alliant International University.

SFLS not accredited by the American Bar Association. [2] San Francisco Law School was approved by the Committee of Bar Examiners from 1937 to 2023 when it became a registered unaccredited distance learning law school. [3] As a result, SFLS students must pass the California First Year Law Students Examination, known as the "Baby Bar", to move forward to the second year of law study and graduates are generally required to pass the California bar exam before they can take the bar exam or practice in states outside of California, although California bar passage is often not sufficient as many states require ABA school graduation as a prerequisite for bar admission. Through Alliant, San Francisco Law School is regionally accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. [4]

In 2014, San Diego Law School opened as a branch campus of San Francisco Law School and located in the Walter Library on Alliant's campus in San Diego at Scripps Ranch. The branch campus closed in 2023 upon the law school's reversion to registered unaccredited status.

An LSAT score of 147 is required for full admission to the school, although students with LSAT scores between 140 and 146 may be considered for conditional admission. [5]

Based on 2018-2019 amounts, for a complete course of study with passing grades tuition was $80,910. [6]

Bar Passage Rates

Of the 14 SFLS alumni who took the California Bar Exam for the first time in July 2022, one passed, for a 7% passage rate, vs. a 36% average for California-accredited law schools and 67% average overall. [7]

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 probation was further extended to August 31, 2023, at which time SFLS again failed to achieve the minimum 40% requirement with a bar passage rate of 36.7% . As a result, SFLS became a registered unaccredited law school. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/admissions/Examinations/July-2022-CBX-Statistics.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  2. ↑ "ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year". ABA website. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  3. ↑ "The State Bar of California".
  4. ↑ "San Francisco Law School Accreditation Statement". Archived from the original on 2010-12-18. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
  5. ↑ "San Francisco Law School Admissions Information - Law School Admissions Test" . Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  6. ↑ "Alliant International University - Expenses and Financial Aid" . Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  7. ↑ "General Statistics Report - February 2022 California Bar Examination" (PDF). State Bar of California. July 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ↑ "2023 Cumulative Minimum Bar Examination Pass Rates (MPR) for California Accredited Law Schools" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  9. ↑ Collins, Donald E. Native American Aliens: Disloyalty and the Renunciation of Citizenship by Japanese Americans during World War II. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985
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