CLEA submitted a letter to the California State Bar regarding the proposed 15-unit experiential bar admission requirement. The proposal was passed unanimously by an appointed task force in September 2014 and then by the state bar board of trustees in November 2014, but has never been formally presented to the CA Supreme Court. See here for the proposal: http://board.calbar.ca.gov/docs/agendaItem/Public/agendaitem1000012730.pdf. 

The AALS Deans Steering Committee, a group of CA Deans and the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar all submitted letters in support of reducing the 15-unit recommendation to 6 in order to be consistent with NY and the ABA. CLEA submitted a letter in strong support of the 15-unit requirement. Recently, the Bar’s Admission & Education Committee voted for Jon Streeter, chair of the previous task force and now a state appellate judge, to work with bar staff to re-draft revisions to the original TFARR proposal to present to the board in October 2016. CLEA previously has submitted multiple comments in support of the proposed 15-unit experiential requirement. Again, we thank the Advocacy Committee and our California clinical colleagues for their work on this letter.