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At its quarterly meeting in San Antonio on Friday, the council voted to pause its work on the latest round of revisions to the contentious rule—known as Standard 206—while developing a new draft that could be presented to the ABA House of Delegates at the ABA Annual Meeting in August.

“The committee’s view is that with the executive orders and the law being in flux, it would be an extreme hardship for law schools if our standards were to require them to do certain things that may cause them to take more litigation risks and potentially violate the law,” said Daniel Thies, chair-elect of the council and co-chair of its Strategic Review Committee.

In the interim, members of the council’s managing director’s office will consult law schools with scheduled accreditation site visits this spring, “and the staff will be putting together written guidance,” said Jennifer L. Rosato Perea, the managing director for accreditation and legal education at the ABA. All law schools at any stage in accreditation can receive support, she added.