Florida Coastal School of Law

So were you teaching at Georgetown or somewhere else?

I was teaching at Florida Coastal School of Law.

Oh.

It's here.

Where'd you go to F, where'd you go to law school in Florida?

Florida?Uh, it was, uh, called Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville

Nice.

So you had a gun in the car and everything, right?

From 1955 through 2015, only one ABA law school closed.

But in the decades since then, eight different law schools have closed, Arizona Summit, Charlotte, Florida Coastal, Whittier, and four others.

And three of those were standalone for-profit schools.

The other five were part of small private universities like Valparaiso and Golden Gate.

The school keeps their ABA approval for one purpose, which is letting the students, it already admitted, finish up either at the school or by taking classes at another ABA school.

They graduate with an ABA approved degree and they can still sit for the bar.

And the ABA approved a teach-out plan for Florida Coastal when it wound down.

When Arizona Summit stopped holding classes, they went into talks with Arizona State's law school so the remaining students could finish there.

From 1955 to 2015, exactly one ABA law school shut down.

But in the decades since, eight law schools shut down, including Arizona Summit, Charlotte, Florida Coastal, and Whittier.

And this summer, the pressure got even worse.

As of July 1st, 2026, new federal loans for professional degrees are capped at $50,000 a year and $200,000 in total.