The most significant limitation in graduating from a California Accredited or California Registered, unaccredited law school is which bar examination you may take to earn a license to practice law. Graduates of both types of California law schools are, by California law, deemed eligible to take the California Bar Examination. Upon passing and receiving their law license, a graduate of either type of law school may appear and practice in all courts (including federal courts) located in California.
In not graduating from an ABA-approved law school, almost no other state will allow graduates of either a California Accredited or California Registered law school to take their bar examination. Thus, based upon an elitist attitude that only an ABA-approved legal education produces competent and ethical attorneys, all but a handful of states essential bar such graduates from the practice of law.