From: "concord investigation" <concordcasestudy@yahoo.com>
To: <Editor@lawschool.com>
Subject: Concord professor William Weston admitted that only 5 participated but 10 graduated?
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2003 4:59 PM

On February 21, 2002, Professor William I. Weston, openly 
admitted in writing that only five (5) Fourth year students 
were participating in the online clinical/externship 
program Kaplan, Inc. (Concord School of Law) operated 
during the 2002 Academic year. Immediately, I confirmed 
with Mr. Weston that the information was true and correct. 

Professor Weston wrote: 

"We do have fourth year students. I met them at a 
recent career development seminar which we ran exclusively 
for them. In addition, I run an online clinical/externship 
program called LEEP (Legal Education Experience Program) 
and I have five 4th year students actively enrolled in the 
program." 

Interestingly, Kaplan, Inc. (Concord School of Law) 
submitted information to the California Bar identifying 
more than five (5) students as having actively participated 
in the LEEP program during the 2002 academic year. In fact, 
10 students were granted Juris Doctorate degrees in 2002, 
because of the false information and allowed to sit for the 
February 2003, California General Bar Exam. 

Rule VII, section 4 of the Rules Regulating Admission to 
Practice law in California requires that students in 
correspondence schools "must have received passing grades 
in courses requiring not less than 864 hours of preparation 
and study during a period of not less than 48 nor more than 
52 weeks" to obtain credit for a year of legal education. 

Therefore, even if the other five (5) fourth year students 
who graduated from Concord and were allowed to sit for the 
California Bar had started the LEEP program on any day 
following February 21, 2002, it appears impossible that 
these alleged students complied with Rule VII, section 4 
(not less than 48 nor more than 52 consectutive weeks). 

Contact: 

teresa.colney@calbar.ca.gov 

gayle.murphy@calbar.ca.gov 

cbj@calbar.ca.gov 

StewardRD@gao.gov 

Fraudnet@gao.gov 

AskDOJ@usdoj.gov 

HEA@mail.house.gov 

feedback@nationaledtechplan.org 

Oig.Hotline@ed.gov 

OPE_WWW@ed.gov 

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