Abraham Lincoln University School of Law (ALU) is an unaccredited distance learning law school in California. The school is located in the Mid-Wilshire section of Los Angeles where students may attend classes through on campus live lectures, live lectures via the internet and archived recorded lectures via the internet. Upon the completion of required classes, students are awarded a Juris Doctor (J.D.) law degree and are eligible to sit for the California Bar Examination. Classes are archived online for review during each class. Abraham Lincoln University School of Law is one of 22 unaccredited law schools in California, one of the few U.S. states that allow unaccredited schools to operate.It is registered with the California Committee of Bar Examiners.Incoming students must take and pass the California First-Year Law Students' Examination ("Baby Bar") after their first year of legal study. The student must pass the "Baby Bar" to advance on to more advanced legal courses. Completion of all legal courses is required to sit for the California Bar Examination.
Abraham Lincoln University School of Law is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education Accrediting Commission which is unaffiliated with the American Bar Association, California State Bar, or any other professional or legal educational organization. The Accrediting Commission is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a recognized accrediting agency and is a member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
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History
ALU was started by Hyung J. Park, a tax attorney and graduate of Loyola Law School. Classes initially were held in a conference room in his office. His first class had 12 students, including his wife.
Park named his school after Abraham Lincoln partly because Lincoln had taught himself law. In 2014 Abraham Lincoln University had 117 students and occupies offices on the 14th floor of a Koreatown high-rise. Tuition is $8,000 annually. In a study done by the Los Angeles Times, about 80% of students who enrolled at Abraham Lincoln dropped out or failed by their fourth year. Founder Park stated that if his students were younger and had less obligations, he, "I guarantee I would have a 95% [bar] passing rate." But, as a former admissions officer noted, the school regularly purchases lists of and solicits the bottom-scoring LSAT students who would have a hard time getting admitted elsewhere.
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Bar pass rate
During the July 2015 administration of the California Bar Examination, 5 graduates took the exam for the first time, and 1 (20%) passed; additionally 48 graduates repeated the exam, and 2 (4%) passed. Cumulatively, as of July 2015, 386 graduates have sat for the California Bar Examination since 1999 and 166 (43.0%), have passed the exam.
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