A non-American Bar Association-accredited law school based in California, which asked the Indiana Supreme Court to change its rules so that its students can sit for the Indiana bar exam, is one step closer to getting its request granted.

Concord Law School at Purdue University Global—now known as Purdue Global Law School—was established in 1998 as the nation’s first fully online law school and is not eligible for ABA accreditation because for among other reasons, it is not a traditional fixed-facility, brick-and-mortar law school as it offers a completely online J.D.