Southern New England School of Law

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city = North Dartmouth
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Southern New England School of Law is located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It is a non-profit law school that is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

Southern New England was founded in 1981.

Accreditation

Southern New England School of Law is not accredited with the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education. [ [http://www.abanet.org/legaled/approvedlawschools/alpha.html ABA Approved Law Schools Alphabetically ] ] As such graduates may not be allowed to sit for bar exams in various states and/or apply for law licenses in various states. [ [http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20041116_suit16.dd126.html Rhode Island news | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal ] ]

Graduates of the law school can sit for the bar exams of Connecticut and Massachusetts. [ [http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20041116_suit16.dd126.html Rhode Island news | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal ] ]

It is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. [ [http://cihe.neasc.org/about_our_institutions/roster_of_institutions/ Roster of Institutions] ]

Location

The law school is located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, next to New Bedford, Massachusetts.

It is about an hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, half hour from Providence, Rhode Island and Cape Cod. It is three and a half hours from New York City

Rodi v SNESL

In 2003 Joseph Rodi sued the Southern New England School of Law alleging fraud and violations of consumer protection. In 1997, Rodi had applied to SNESL when it was provisionally accredited by the ABA on the basis of its assurance that it was "high confident" of receiving full accreditation [http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=03-2502.01A] . When it was denied accreditation in 1997, Rodi considered transferring. However, upon the assurance of the then acting law dean David M. Prentiss that "no cause for pessimism" that SNESL would be accredited by Rodi's graduation date, he did not transfer. In 1999, the ABA again denied accreditation and SNESL did not appeal the decision to another ABA-body. Rather it terminated half its faculty, further straying from ABA guideliness [http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=03-2502.01A] . Rodi graduated in 2000 and was unable to sit for the New Jersey bar as a result of the lack of accredtitation. SNESL has alleged that it did notify students that it was not accredited and that it did not lead Rodi to believe it would be accredited by a certain date. As of November 2007, no further proceedings have taken place and could be prevented by a three year statute of limitations under Massachusetts law [ [116 Fed. Appx. 290; 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 24937] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.snesl.edu/ http://www.snesl.edu/]