Now THIS is News! Husson University in Maine DROPS Law School Program!

I didn't even understand this article when I first read it.  At first, I thought it was Bangalore, India.  Then I was very confused when the article implied that the ABA didn't accredit a school.  Next, I expected to read about flying pigs in hell having a snow fight with pink elephants.

Apparently, the Supreme Court of Maine is NOT going to allow Husson Law Grads to sit for the bar. Woah, Nelly!  That is news!  I would be interested in reading their decision. I'm wondering if they considered the over population of attorneys in this country.  Anyone have any insight?

Bangor school drops plans to offer law degrees: The decision follows a state supreme court ruling that Husson law graduates couldn't take the bar exam.
By Emma Bouthillette ebouthillette@pressherald.com
News Asssistant


Husson University's trustees announced Monday that they are suspending further efforts to offer law degrees at the university in Bangor.

Their decision followed the Maine Supreme Judicial Court's ruling March 4 that Husson's graduates would not be allowed to take the state's bar exam.

"We are grateful to the Supreme Judicial Court for their careful review of our petition," university President Robert Clark said in a press release Monday.

The school requested the court's assistance in September, asking the court to devise its own review system for evaluating Husson University, as an alternative to the American Bar Association standards.

The court said it was willing to consider an existing alternative review process but could not create one. Without the law school fully operating and a review in progress, the court said it could not allow Husson students to take the bar exam.

The release said the school will continue to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in criminal justice and undergraduate degrees in paralegal studies through the School of Business.
Planning for the law school began five years ago. It would have been the second law school in the state, after the University of Maine School of Law in Portland. Its main objective would have been providing legal education to people in northern and eastern Maine.

"The need exists to educate lawyers in the underserved areas of Maine," said Peter Murray, founder of Murray Plumb & Murray, in an article in the Maine Sunday Telegram on March 14.

After learning about the suspended efforts Monday, Murray declined to comment on the trustees' decision. "We could have had a great law school there," he said.

Murray, who has served for the past 15 years as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, had intended to teach part time at Husson's law school.