{"id":154989,"date":"2026-06-17T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=154989"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:07:27","slug":"states-increasingly-consider-alternative-pathways-to-the-legal-field-but-not-everyone-wants-to-break-ties-with-the-aba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/17\/states-increasingly-consider-alternative-pathways-to-the-legal-field-but-not-everyone-wants-to-break-ties-with-the-aba\/","title":{"rendered":"States Increasingly Consider ‘Alternative Pathways’ to the Legal Field, but Not Everyone Wants to Break Ties With the ABA"},"content":{"rendered":"

A growing majority of states have adopted “alternative pathways” to the legal profession, such as innovative pathways to licensure or allowing graduates of non-American Bar Association-accredited schools to sit for the bar, though only a few have opted to take over accreditation altogether.<\/p>\n

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A growing majority of states have adopted “alternative pathways” to the legal profession, such as innovative pathways to licensure or allowing graduates of non-American Bar Association-accredited schools to sit for the bar, though only a few have opted to take over accreditation altogether.<\/p>\n

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A growing majority of states have adopted “alternative pathways” to the legal profession, such as innovative pathways to licensure or allowing graduates of non-American Bar Association-accredited schools to sit for the bar, though only a few have opted to take over accreditation altogether. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A growing majority of states have adopted “alternative pathways” to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/legal-news-Sr1AZM.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154991,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154989\/revisions\/154991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}