The University of West Los Angeles - School of Law is a private, non-profit law school. It maintains two campuses in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Inglewood and Chatsworth (San Fernando Valley}. The School of Law is accredited by the State Bar of California Committee of Bar Examiners. UWLA was founded in 1966, by Henry Blunt, and three other Culver City High School educators. One of the first teachers UWLA hired to teach law classes was Attorney Clifford Dicker. He taught at the school. Professor Dicker became a professor of community property and continued to teach until his death... in 2009. Basil George Dezes was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2006. The School of Law received accreditation from the Committee of Bar Examiners of The State Bar of California in 1978. It is not approved by the American Bar Association. In 2002, the San Fernando Valley College of Law, co-founded as an independent school by Leo L. Mann and Joseph P. Lamont in 1962, was acquired and merged into UWLA. Originally the San Fernando Valley College of Law was the first law school in the San Fernando Valley.
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