Readers React: In defense of unaccredited law schools

To the editor: As a successful graduate of an unaccredited law school, I take exception to your article on the schools’ high dropout rates. Not everyone is cut out to become an attorney, just like not everyone is cut out to be a journalist or a doctor. The failures of many do not make the system bad. (“Nearly 9 in 10 students drop out of unaccredited law schools in California,” July 25)

The major thing your story failed to bring out is that besides the high tuition of the traditional schools, State Bar regulations prohibit one from having a full-time job while going to traditional law schools. As such, people who have to make a living could never go to a traditional law school.

The second thing left out of the story is that these schools provide almost everyone with an opportunity to become an attorney. I went, graduated in 1995, took the California bar exam and passed on my first try. I was not the only one in my class to pass the first time.

Michael S. Geller, Riverside

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