Nelson Locke thinks he might have inspired some of this. The 75-year-old lawyer spent three years asking the Texas Board of Law Examiners to admit him to the state bar without requiring him to take ...

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday finalized a tentative opinion issued in September that no longer requires soon-to-be lawyers to attend a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. The ...

Jan 7 (Reuters) - The Texas Supreme Court has finalized a plan to end its reliance on the American Bar Association for law school accreditation and instead establish its own list of law schools whose ...

SAN ANTONIO – The Texas Supreme Court ruled Texas law schools are no longer required to be accredited by the American Bar Association. The ruling was signed by all nine justices of the Texas Supreme ...

The American Bar Association no longer will have oversight of law schools in Texas. The state had relied on the ABA for law school accreditation for more than four decades. Texas is now the first ...

Texas is now the first state in the U.S. to eliminate American Bar Association oversight of its law schools, ending the state’s 42-year-long reliance on the national organization. The Texas Supreme ...