Concord Law School
Concord Law School (formerly Concord University School of Law), is an online law school based in Los Angeles, California. It is one of several schools within Purdue University Global. Established in 1998, Concord Law School was the United States' first fully online law school. The school is accredited by the State Bar of California, but it is not accredited by the American Bar Association. History In October 1998, 33 students began the online program. As part of the revolving door between the ABA and start up law schools, Concord hired Barry Currier from 2004 to 2010 as Dean of the law school. The merger of Concord into Kaplan University in late 2007 made Concord the first online law school to be part of a regionally accredited university. As the first fully online law school in the United States, the concept of Concord initially drew criticism from the legal establishment, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In June 2016, Martin Pritikin, Harvard Law School magna cum laude graduate, joined Concord Law School as its dean. In March 2018, Purdue University bought Kaplan University to make a nonprofit institution and a new online university called Purdue University Global. The for-profit