Appalachian School of Law
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The [Appalachian School of Law] is a private law school in Grundy, Virginia, a small town near the convergence of Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The school offers a three-year Juris Doctor degree, and enrolls approximately 370 full-time students from numerous states and several foreign countries. The school also has 482 alumni and 50 staff.
The school was founded in 1994 with a deep commitment to community service and leadership, and it admitted its first class of students in August 1997. Appalachian distinguishes itself from almost all of the other 192 American Bar Association-accredited law schools in the country, as its students are required to volunteer 25 hours each semester on community service projects, ranging from dispute resolution training to humane society management. Only 11 other law schools have similar mandatory programs.
ASL also conducts Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) training in local schools. This program has drawn national attention, particularly from former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, who has publicly congratulated the school on this effort.
The school was provisionally accredited by the American Bar Association in February 2001. The school was recommended for full accreditation by the ABA's legal education committee in April 2006. The law school was granted full accreditation from the ABA on June 12, 2006, with an effective date of June 11, 2006.
On January 16, 2002, the Dean Anthony Sutin, Professor Thomas Blackwell, and student Angela Dales were shot and killed by disgruntled student Peter Odighizuwa, 43, of Nigeria. At trial, Odighizuwa was found mentally competent and plead guilty to the murders to avoid the death penalty. Odighizuwa was sentenced to multiple life terms in prison.
External links
- http://www.asl.edu/
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