CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Charlotte School of Law has officially closed, according to an email from Lee Robertson, the president of Charlotte School of Law Alumni Association.
In the email, Robertson says:
Dean Meggett informed me of two tremendously distributing developments in the Charlotte School of Law’s fight to resume operations. First, the American Bar Association denied the law school’s Teach-Out Plan. Second, the North Carolina Board of Governors (the authority that permits post-secondary institutions to operate in this state) declined to grant an extension of the law school’s license to operate. In other words, there is no Teach-Out Plan, and no license to operate even if there was. It appears that there is no path forward.
The school closed immediately after the email. The school’s website was even taken offline.
Robertson’s email continued with:
I was very hopeful that our law school would be able to regain the confidence of the ABA, the BOG, its students and its alumni. I was also very hopeful that the students who have been patiently waiting to resume their education at the Charlotte School of Law would have the opportunity to do so. It appears that they will not. Their only option, in fact, seems to be to transfer to a different institution, and in the process, lose thousands of dollars and years of their lives. Moreover, as most law schools will resume classes in the next two weeks, it is unlikely that any student will have the opportunity to transfer this semester.
The Charlotte School of Law was recently placed on probation and lost all of its federal student aid prior to closing.
