By рetition pursuant to Article IV, Section 21(a) of the Rules Relating to Admissions to the Bar, Barry Alan Eisenson seeks waiver of the requirements of Article IV, Sectiоn 22(b) of the same rules. Section 22 (b) provides:
“Section 22. Every applicant is also required :
(b) To furnish the Board satisfactory evidence of graduation from a full-time accredited law school at a time when, or in the same calendar year in which such school was sо accredited, and that such accredited law school has cоnferred upon the applicant the degree of Bachelor оf Laws or Doctor of Jurisprudence. The term ‘accredited law school,’ has reference to any law school approved or provisionally approved by the American Bar Association or which is а member of the Association of American Law Schools.”
Petitioner attended the Baltimore School of Law from September, 1967 through his graduation in June, 1971. At that time he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudenсe. On the date of his graduation, the school was neither approvеd nor provisionally approved by the American Bar Association. However, petitioner alleged that the ABA’s evaluating committee conducted its examination and investigation of the school in November, 1971, somе five months after petitioner’s graduation. At the next yearly meeting of the American Bar Association in August, 1972, the school was provisionally approved on the basis of the November, 1971 evaluation. The facts as stated by petitioner are not controverted by the Board of Bar Examiners.
The total time span between petitioner’s graduation and provisional accreditation by the ABA covers a period of approximately fourteen months. Obviously, therefore, petitioner fails to comply with the requirement of graduation from a full-time accredited law school “at a time when, or in the same calendar year in which such school was so accredited. . . . ”
While waivers of the Rule relating to accreditation аre not to be granted without good and sufficient reason,
Aсcordingly, the petition of Barry Alan Eisenson for waiver of the accrеditation requirement of Article IV, Section 22(b), of the Rules Relating to Admission to the Bar is granted and, provided petitioner meets all
It is so ordered.
Notes
. Although it is not material to the instant situation, we note that the term “calendаr year” must bo interpreted to include the 12 montli period following graduation, regardless of the month in which an applicant graduates. To read this term otherwise would in view of the wide disparity of graduation dates in Florida and elsewhere, result in unreasonable discrimination between similarly situated graduates.
. Petition of Klein,