A Conversation on the Accreditation of Law Schools in Alabama, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and the Nation
Live Interactive Webinar - 3.0 General Credit Hour
Mon, June 29, 2026
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET
A Conversation on the Accreditation of Law Schools in Alabama, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and the Nation
Date: Monday, June 29, 2026
Time: 2:00-5:00 p.m. Central Time (3:00 - 6:00 PM EST)
Location: Virtual
Register for the Accreditation of Law Schools Program
About the Event
The Toledo Bar Association is happy to partner in sharing this
FREE seminar.
Registration is through the Houston Bar Association.
Please note time difference.
A Conversation on the Accreditation of Law Schools is a virtual program on law school accreditation from several perspectives.
This virtual program will address the status of American Bar Association (ABA) law school accreditation in Alabama, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas; the institutional perspective on ABA law school accreditation; and critique of ABA law school accreditation.
Co-Conveners:
Law Schools
- Florida State University College of Law
- Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) Duncan School of Law
- Samford University Cumberland School of Law
- South Texas College of Law Houston
- St. Mary's University School of Law
- University of Cincinnati Donald P. Klekamp College of Law
- University of Houston Law Center
- UNT Dallas School of Law
Bar Associations
- Austin Bar Association
- Cincinnati Bar Association
- Cleveland Bar Association
- Dallas Bar Association
- Houston Bar Association
- San Antonio Bar Association
- Tarrant County Bar Association
- Toledo Bar Association
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Welcome Remarks
- Gregory C. Ulmer
President, Houston Bar Association
Partner, BakerHostetler
The Status of ABA Law School Accreditation in Alabama, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas
- Leonard M. Baynes
Member, Executive Committee, Association of American Law Schools
Dean, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair
Professor of Law
University of Houston Law Center - Haider Ala Hamoudi
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law
University of Cincinnati Donald P. Klekamp College of Law - Blake Hudson
Dean and Ethel P. Malugen Chair of Law
Cumberland School of Law
Samford University - Matthew Lyon
Vice President and Dean
Duncan School of Law
Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) - Erin O’Hara O’Connor
Dean and Donald J. Weidner Chair
Florida State University College of Law
2:30 – 3:15 PM
The Institutional Perspective on ABA Law School Accreditation
- Kellye Y. Testy
CEO & Executive Director
Association of American Law Schools - Daniel R. Thies
Chair, Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar
American Bar Association
Shareholder, Webber & Thies PC - Fiona Trevelyan
President & CEO
NALP (National Association for Law Placement) Foundation
3:15 – 4:15 PM
Critique of ABA Law School Accreditation
- Removal of the 206 Diversity Standard
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean
Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Dennis Patterson
Board of Governors Professor of Law and Philosophy
Co-Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy
Rutgers University School of Law
- Antitrust Concerns
Darren Bush
Leonard B. Rosenberg Professor of Law
University of Houston Law Center
Harry First
Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Emeritus
New York University School of Law
- Other Issues
Todd J. Clark
Dean and Professor of Law
Widener University
Delaware Law School
David Yellen
Professor of Law
Dean Emeritus
University of Miami School of Law
4:15– 5:00 PM
Moderated Q&A
All registration fees must be paid in full prior to the start of the seminar. Cancellations received prior to the seminar will be refunded less a $30 administration fee. No refunds or transfers given for cancellations received on or after the day of the program. Upon request, course materials are available in consideration of tuition paid. The TBA reserves the right to modify or cancel a program if circumstances warrant. If the TBA cancels a program, full tuition will be refunded.
