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The establishment in 1878 of a national association of lawyers, the American Bar Association (ABA) came about, in great part, because of the inability of the legal profession to resolve either of these conflicts. The existence of an unregulated system of legal instruction had reached a point where, many lawyers believed, the practice of law itself was threatened. While the ABA grew, both in numbers and in importance as the voice of the profession, its influence with the local bar associations increased accordingly. In the 1930s it chose to use its influence to develop uniform standards for admission to law school and the requirements for both graduation and admission to the bar. Many of these standards, in fact, would come to be fixed by law. The consequences of this policy were swift and quite dramatic. Between 1928 and 1935 enrollment in schools not approved by the ABA...
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