While Charlotte Law served the community through expungement programs and restitution self-help clinics, it was also criticized for alleged mismanagement and compliance issues, which were later found to be true.
[1] On December 19, 2016, Charlotte School of Law lost its authority from the U.S. Department of Education to participate in the Federal Student Loan program.
In January 2017 the school started a food bank and a "go fund me" project to help students who could not afford housing and groceries.
Many students were forced to use Mecklenburg County services and crisis assistance to maintain housing, while the school offered them a loan in the amount of $1,000.
[2] On February 7, 2017, the Charlotte School of Law Alumni Association wrote to Dean Jay Conison and President Chidi Ogene demanding their resignations.
[3] The Alumni Association noted the falling admission standards, decreasing bar passage rates, and dismal employment prospects for graduates under Conison and Ogene's leadership.
On August 15, 2017, the New York Times reported that the North Carolina attorney general had confirmed that Charlotte School of Law had closed.
[14] Assistant Dean Odessa Alm pushed faculty present at the meeting to advise students to forgo taking the bar exam in exchange for payments of $11,200 from the school.
The intra-school competition was named after Susie Marshall Sharp, North Carolina's first female state Supreme Court Chief Justice.
According to Charlotte's official 2015 ABA-required disclosures, 26% of the Class of 2015 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage required employment nine months after graduation.
Charlotte's Law School Transparency under-employment score was 37.7%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.