https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2017/08/24/confirmed-charlotte-law-winding-down-operations.html
CharloTTTTTe SOL Will Officially Close: On August 23, 2017, the Charlotte Business Journal published a piece from staff write Jennifer Thomas, under the headline “CONFIRMED: Charlotte Law winding down operations, uptown campus to close.” Check out this opening:
“Charlotte School of Law’s days are numbered in uptown.
The embattled for-profit law school is in the process of notifying students, faculty and staff that it is winding down operations.
“Unfortunately, we have to. I don’t think we can avoid that at this point. This is not because we want to, it’s because we have to,”Dean Paul Meggett told the Charlotte Business Journal exclusively.
An exact time table for that to occur has not been finalized, but the fall semester won’t start Monday as scheduled, he adds.
“We’ve got to get our arms around a lot of different things, and we’re really just getting started.”
Charlotte Law’s focus remains on helping the roughly 100 students still enrolled at the law school find a path forward — many of whom still want to continue their education in Charlotte, Meggett says.
He has been dean for two months now, after spending a number of years on the faculty.
Meggett says he continues to field phone calls and emails from law deans across the country who are sympathetic to the school and the students' plight. Efforts are ongoing to match students with those opportunities.
“It’s just without a license we have to tread very lightly. We’re absolutely going to comply with N.C. law, but we want to make sure we are still able to help our students as best we can in this,” he says.
Roughly 20 faculty and staff will be displaced when the school officially closes.
That news comes less than a year after the American Bar Association placed Charlotte Law on probation — though its accreditation still remains in place through Feb. 3, 2018.” [Emphasis mine]
Sadly, many of the existing students at this fifth tier diploma mill will continue their “legal studies” at other in$titution$ happy to take their borrowed money. Then again, what do you expect from those who earned a 145 on the LSAT?
http://abovethelaw.com/2017/08/charlotte-law-finally-gets-around-to-telling-students-the-school-is-closing/?rf=1
Other Coverage: On August 23, 2017, Staci Zaretsky posted an ATL entry labeled “Charlotte Law Finally Gets Around To Telling Students The School Is Closing.” Read this portion:
“A little more than one week ago, word began to spread that the Charlotte School of Law would be closing its doors, “effective immediately.” This disappointing news came not from the law school itself, but from the president of its alumni association. Since that time, there has been no official announcement from the school about its closure — until today.
This morning, Interim Dean Paul Meggett notified students and alumni via email that the school “no longer has a path forward,” and would officially begin winding down its operations. Take a look at what the dean’s parting words were:
Announcement
Paul Meggett
Today, 10:00 AM
Dear CharlotteLaw Community:
We regret to announce that after months of extraordinary effort, Charlotte School of Law no longer has a path forward. On August 11, 2017, the school’s license to offer programs of study in North Carolina expired. Despite negative, often misleading headlines, we vigorously pursued ways to keep the school open and protect the interests of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni. We are heartbroken that we were unable to achieve the desired outcome. This closure has disrupted the lives of everyone in the CharlotteLaw community, particularly impacting our students’ dreams of achieving their educational and career goals. We are continuing to work diligently to help our remaining students to complete their legal education…
We are proud to have been Charlotte’s law school.
Sincerely,
The Leadership Team of Charlotte School of Law” [Emphasis mine]
Cool approach there. Good luck on the Bad Timing Awards. This email only came eight days after everyone was aware that your for-profit diploma factory was going to close up shop.
Conclusion: In the end, Paul Meggett is not to blame for this late notice. I’m sure that the "leadership team" at InfiLaw and Sterling Partners LLC prohibited the school’s administrators from contacting the students about this TTTTT closure. Hopefully, the affected students will be able to have their loans discharged. However, I expect that most of them will complete their degrees at another ABA-accredited toilet. After all, what’s $170K+ in non-dischargeable debt – for a “dream” of becoming a lawyer?