Lincoln Law School of San Jose

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Lincoln Law School of San Jose
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Established1919
School type Private law school
Dean J. Jason Amezcua
Location San Jose, California, US
37°19′52″N121°53′06″W / 37.331047°N 121.88489°W / 37.331047; -121.88489
Bar pass rate12% (July 2023 repeat takers) [1] [Note 1]
Website www.lincolnlawschool.edu

Lincoln Law School of San Jose is a private, non-profit law school located in San Jose, California. Founded in 1926, the law school was formerly part of Lincoln University, prior to achieving independence as an institution in 1993.

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History

The school traces its roots to 1919 when Benjamin Lickey and his wife Susan Lickey founded a law study program in San Francisco as a way to provide veterans and working-class students a part-time night school for law studies. [3] 1932 graduate Kenneth Fung [4] was one of the first Chinese American attorneys to be admitted to the practice of law in the state.

The school was incorporated in 1926 as a part of Lincoln University and located in San Francisco, becoming a non-profit institution in 1949. In 1961, a second law school campus was opened in San Jose, graduating its first class in 1965. By 1987, Lincoln University's entire law school program was concentrated in San Jose. In 1993, the San Jose campus formally separated from Lincoln University becoming an independent, public benefit, non-profit corporation, changing its name to Lincoln Law School of San Jose. The school moved to downtown San Jose in 1999. In 2000, the 25-year-old Peninsula University School of Law merged into Lincoln Law School of San Jose.

Academics

Lincoln is exclusively an evening-study program that lasts 4 or 4.5 years, depending upon the starting date of the student. 84 units of study are required for graduation with each unit equal to 15 hours of in-class instruction. [5] Students usually attend classes 3 or 4 nights a week, with a few options for elective or seminar classes scheduled during the daytime on Saturdays. [3]

Accreditation

The school is not accredited by the American Bar Association [6] and graduates may not qualify to be admitted to the bar in states other than California. [7] The school was accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners [8] of the State Bar of California from 1993 to 2022.

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 December 31, 2022. The law school became a registered, unaccredited, fixed-facility law school effective January 1, 2023. [9] As an unaccredited school, the school’s students can only take the California Bar Examination, and earn academic credit towards a J.D., if they pass the California Bar’s First Year Law Students' Examination (known as the "Baby Bar") within three attempts after completing the first year of study. [7]

Admissions

As reported in January 2023, the school accepted 36 of 101 applicants (35.64%), with 25 (69.44%) of those accepted enrolling. The median enrollee had a 141 LSAT score and 3.13 undergraduate GPA. [10]

Law Review

Lincoln has published a student-produced law review since 1965. [11]

Notable people

Alumni
Faculty and board member

Notes

  1. ↑ 18% of repeat takers passed the February 2023 California Bar Examination. [2] The school did not have 11 or more first-time takers for either the February or the July 2023 California Bar Examinations so the California Bar did not report results for fewer than 11 takers. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "General Statistics Report July 2023 California Bar Examination" (PDF). calbar.ca.gov. State Bar of California. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  2. ↑ "General Statistics Report February 2023 California Bar Examination" (PDF). calbar.ca.gov. State Bar of California. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Earn Your JD Law Degree | Evening Classes. Personalized Learning".
  4. ↑ Attorney Search: Kenneth Fung, State Bar of California (Accessed: 2010-04-29)
  5. ↑ Curriculum Archived 2021-04-18 at the Wayback Machine , Lincoln Law School of San Jose (Accessed: 2010-04-29)
  6. ↑ "ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year". ABA website. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  7. 1 2 "California's State-Accredited and Unaccredited Law Schools and the Baby Bar". top-law-schools.com. Top-Law-Schools. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  8. ↑ Law Schools in California Accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners (CBE) 4/10/2010
  9. ↑ "2022 Minimum Cumulative Five-Year Bar Examination Pass Rates for California Accredited Law Schools (MPR)" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "January 2023 Annual Disclosure by California Unaccredited Law Schools Under California Business and Professions Code Section 6061.7(a) | Lincoln Law School of San Jose" (PDF). lincolnlawschool.edu. Lincoln Law School of San Jose. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  11. ↑ General Information Archived 2017-08-26 at the Wayback Machine , Lincoln Law Review (Accessed: 2010-04-29)
  12. 1 2 Distinguished Alumni Archived 2016-06-06 at the Wayback Machine , Official Internet site
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