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| Location | North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| Website | http://www.snesl.edu/ |
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.
ABA Accreditation Status
Southern New England School of Law has applied for accreditation from the ABA. The University is committed to providing all resources towards gaining ABA approval. However, it makes no guarantees that the school will be approved by the ABA by a set time-table.
However, it is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Graduates of the law school can sit for the bar exams of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
They are also allowed to practice law in front of Federal Court of Appeal and Federal District Court of Eastern New York and Southern New York, which includes 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 . 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 . 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
Location
The law school is located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, next to New Bedford, Massachusetts.
It is about an hours drive from Boston, Massachusetts, half hour from Providence, Rhode Island and Cape Cod. It is three and a half hours from New York City
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