@scotchdrnker - The ABA accreditation doesn't matter. According to the article, she was eligible to sit for the Tennessee state bar whether the ABA accredited the school or not. ABA accreditation only allows you to sit for OTHER state bars outside the state in which you graduate from law school. In this case, it is the state notifying her of the rule against sitting for the Tennessee bar without a Bachelor's. The ABA accreditation process is lengthy; any new school is likely to be unaccredited by the ABA for at least the first two years it is open and even after only provisional accreditation is granted until the first class takes bar examinations. Had she been eligible to sit for the state bar and if she intended to practice in Tennessee anyway, the decision to attend a new school wouldn't have been risky at all.