ABA Proposes Looser Rule on Online Credits

The American Bar Association has proposed loosening its rules on online education. In an announcement posted Monday, they stated, “The Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the American Bar Association’s accreditor of law schools, is proposing a new rule for distance education that would nearly double the number of credits law students can earn in distance learning courses before graduating.”

The current American Bar Association (ABA) rules state that no more than 15 required credits from an ABA-accredited school can be from online education. With the new proposal, the ABA would allow at least 28 online credit hours.

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