The arm of the American Bar Association that oversees law schools is poised to make its biggest transformation in decades with a major reorganization aimed at saving money and increasing efficiency.

The plan calls for the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to dissolve two longstanding committees tasked with developing the rules governing law schools and with making accreditation recommendations for individual schools. The work of the disbanded accreditation committee and the standards review committee would be assumed by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar—an existing 21-member body that makes all final decisions on accreditation and law school standards.

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