Charleston School of Law

The Charleston School of Law is a for-profit private law school located in Charleston, South Carolina, established in 2003. The school was fully accredited by the American Bar Association in August 2011. Despite Charleston being the early capital of South Carolina and the location of the first college in the state, no modern law school existed in the city until 2003. In November 1825, a group of Charleston attorneys had petitioned the South Carolina General Assembly for a charter of incorporation for the creation of a regular "Law Institute" in Charleston and a law library. They had also... established a lectureship on the law. In December 1825, the legislature granted a charter, and the Forensic Club began offering lectures on the law in February 1826. The Forensic Club — a private organization chartered to offer lectures in the law in Charleston — operated for two years, but it never took the form of a modern law school. In 2002, prominent Charleston judges and attorneys started to work on establishing a law school in Charleston. The school would be the first organized effort to offer instruction in the law in Charleston since the 1828 dissolution of the Forensic Club.
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