Maine Supreme Court to decide fate of Husson Law School

BANGOR, MAINE (NEWS CENTER) -- The Maine Supreme Court heard testimony regarding a petition to let future Husson Law students sit for the Maine Bar Exam.

Husson University filed the petition with the supreme court in September. To pass the bar, law students are required to have graduated from an American Bar Association accredited law school. But the ABA requires law schools to have tenured professors. Husson University does not offer tenure to its professors. Several local attorneys spoke in favor of the petition. Laurie Gibson of the Maine Bar Examiners Board spoke against it. Future Husson Law Professor Peter Murray says Husson's law program would comply with the all of the ABA's standards besides tenure.

"We're asking the court to adopt our program as the blue print, as compliant with the ABA's standards, and then to let us have the opportunity to start the law school subject to the court's ability to come in two years later to see how we're doing"