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..pdfOpened a spectacular facility for legal study.
Placed graduates in high profile firms, prestigious judicial clerkships and government positions.
Competed exceedingly well against many well-established schools in the U.S. News and World Report rankings.
Attracted faculty who have clerked for Supreme Court Justices and who hold degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, UCLA, USC, Pennsylvania, Georgetown and Michigan and with publications in distinguished law reviews and journals such as Minnesota Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Georgetown Journal of Law and Policy, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and many others.
Launched a new LL.M. degree in Taxation.
Seated students with consistently stronger academic credentials year after year.
Personalization: Chapman operates on the philosophy that a legal mind develops most effectively in a collaborative environment. Professors view themselves as teachers and mentors and are available to students for intellectual partnerships as well as academic and career advice.
Innovation: At Chapman, the Socratic method is only one of our teaching tools. Professors also employ other pedagogical styles including lectures, small seminars, student study groups and simulation courses. Chapman also stresses ethics and citizenship in its legal training; we see ourselves as a community dedicated to fostering the intellectual and personal development of good people who also happen to be great lawyers.
The Chapman University School of Law offers a full-time program leading to the Juris Doctor degree. In addition, the School of Law offers a joint JD/MBA degree with Chapman’s AACSBaccredited Argyros School of Business and Economics.
The academic program requires three years of full-time study. In keeping with ABA guidelines, full-time students must limit any outside employment to less than 20 hours per week.
The required curriculum offers a core foundation in legal studies and covers foundational topics such as torts, contracts, criminal law,
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real property, civil procedure, legal research and writing. The required curriculum also grounds students in corporations and federal income taxation, constitutional law, evidence and professional responsibility.
You also will be required to take part in the lawyering skills curriculum. Skills training is the practical, experiential component of your education, where you begin to acquire the skills essential to the practice of law. In these courses you will have the chance to gain competency in negotiations, client interviewing and counseling, mediation, advanced legal research, advocacy, appellate practices and procedures, legal drafting, and trial practice.
The advanced curriculum will provide you the opportunity to take electives that help integrate your legal knowledge and lawyering skills to solve client problems. Through Chapman’s academic externship program, you can augment your classroom experience in real-world legal settings, giving you experience you can take with you into the job market. Furthermore, the clinics in tax, bankruptcy, elder law and appellate practice will offer you the chance to represent actual clients, long before you have passed a bar examination or been licensed to practice.
The Law School has seen an explosion of new clinical offerings in the last year.
Students interested in appellate work participate in the Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic. Students learn the fine art of appealing decisions of lower courts by writing briefs and presenting oral arguments before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In addition, the Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, under the direction of Professor John Eastman, provides students with an opportunity to earn independent study credit assisting Professor Eastman with the Center's ongoing trial and appellate litigation. Over the past four years, numerous students have participated in the program, conducting research, drafting discovery requests, preparing draft summary judgment motions and appellate briefs, attending hearings, and even preparing briefs for filing with the Supreme Court of the United States in such landmark cases as Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (the Ohio school vouchers case) and Grutter v. Bollinger (the Michigan affirmative action cases).
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For the third time in three years, the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at Chapman University School of Law was awarded a federal grant to operate and maintain a clinic to represent taxpayers before the IRS and in U.S. Tax Court. Chapman has received the highest grant award of $100,000 every year since the inception of the program, and is one of only two law schools in California to receive the maximum federal grant. Law students who have completed prerequisite tax law courses are eligible to represent actual taxpayers under the supervision of at- torney-professors. If matters cannot be resolved before trial, students may represent clients before a judge in U.S. Tax Court. The clinic not only provides a valuable service to disadvantaged taxpayers, it teaches students valuable negotiation and interviewing skills and helps the IRS in more efficient resolution of tax controversies.
Text 30. Golden Gate University
(Golden Gate University School of Law)
Founded in 1901, Golden Gate University School of Law offers a variety of programs for beginning law students and practicing lawyers. Golden Gate University School of Law is fully accredited by the American Bar Association and the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State of California and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Graduates qualify to take the bar exam in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia.
A student with an undergraduate degree may earn the basic Juris Doctor degree. Certificates of Specialization are available in Business Law, Criminal Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Law, Labor and Employment Law, Litigation, Public Interest Law, and Real Estate Law.
Students may also earn combined degrees: JD/MBA with Golden Gate University or JD/PhD with the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology.
The ethic we share at Golden Gate University School of Law is that lawyering is an honorable profession, worthy of the public's trust.
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Toward that end, we provide students with a solid foundation in legal theory and the skills necessary to practice law successfully.
Professional Skills Development JD students develop professional skills through a variety of programs including: clinics, certificates of specialization, the Honors Lawyering Program, joint degrees, and more.
Faculty you will be taught by an accomplished, diverse faculty who practiced law before teaching. They are experts in a wide range of legal areas – from litigation to labor law, corporate law to criminal law, property development to public interest, environmental law to entertainment law, international law to intellectual property law – and much more. Our student-to-teacher ratio is 21 to 1, and our professors are committed to being accessible to students. Public Interest Golden Gate has a special commitment to public interest. In addition to a strong public interest curriculum, the School of Law offers financial assistance to students who pursue careers in public interest law, and our in-house clinics provide legal assistance to underrepresented populations. Diversity You will practice law in a complex world. Golden Gate students reflect a wide variety of ages; work experience; and cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. Our more than 20 student organizations address the many interests of our diverse student population. Golden Gate's 1,000 law students include working professionals and recent college graduates from more than 100 undergraduate and graduate institutions. They come from across the United States and from a number of foreign nations, and represent a wide spectrum of ethnic, economic, and cultural backgrounds. Personalized Career Services Our Law Career Services Office provides you with ongoing support from the time you enter law school through graduation.
Text 31. California Western School of Law
California Western School of Law is the independent San Diego law school that educates lawyers as creative problem solvers and principled advocates – lawyers who frame the practice of law as a helping, collaborative profession. For more than 80 years, California Western
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has educated lawyers who are dedicated to improving the lives of their clients and the quality of the legal system. California Western offers the following advantages for pursuing your legal education: Proud history, Broad-based Skills Development, Innovative Programs, Areas of Concentration, Enriching Student Diversity, Dedicated Faculty, Trimester System. California Western's faculty represents a wide range of experiences, publications, and legal and academic backgrounds. California Western School of Law is committed to using the law to solve human and societal problems. Our mission is to train ethical, competent and compassionate lawyers, representative of our diverse society, who can use the law effectively and creatively. We recognize that, in the twenty-first century, the rapid rate of change will accelerate and create further problems. We also recognize the pervasive perception, and partial reality, that the legal system and lawyers have helped to create, rather than solve, the problems our evolving society confronts.
While continuing to graduate lawyers well-equipped to practice law, we also seek to graduate creative problem solvers committed to the improvement of our legal system and society. Our graduates will not merely react to problems, but will anticipate them and be ready to devise innovative and responsible solutions to serve the needs of their clients and the broader community. Further, by contributing to legal scholarship, participating in public deliberations about legal matters and serving as a community legal education resource, California Western School of Law will make significant, measurable contributions to the solution of problems in our community, our society and our world.
California Western’s Centers and Institutes – including the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy, California Innocence Project, Center for Creative Problem Solving, and the Institute of Health Law Studies – enrich students’ law school experience while also enabling California Western to have a substantive impact on the broader society. Professors and students involved in the programs shape real-life legal events – whether freeing wrongfully convicted inmates in California or training more than 2,000 lawyers and judges in Latin America.
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California Western provides a rigorous, traditional legal education with an emphasis on developing problem-solving, communication, writing, and analytical thinking skills. This broad skill-base allows our students to see the big picture, and evaluate the social and economic context behind a wide array of legal problems in order to find the best possible outcome for their client.
California Western believes a diversified student body enriches the academic and interpersonal experiences of law school. The faculty and staff quickly and comfortably welcome each student into the school community, encouraging all students to participate in the numerous academic and social opportunities present at the law school.
California Western's dedicated faculty are experienced scholars who remember what it was like to be a law student. The law school’s culture puts no unnecessary barriers in the way of relationships between students, full-time faculty, and adjunct faculty.
The law school complements the traditional J.D. curriculum with innovative programs that advance both a student's educational experience and capacity to enter the legal profession with superior training. California Western not only teaches the theory of law, but also the fundamental skills required to practice law.
Students can enhance their expertise through six areas of concentration and three dual-degree programs. Students may also participate in a range of special academic programs covering clinical internships, summer enrichment programs, study abroad and more.
One of the ways California Western students and faculty stay connected with the role of law in a changing society is through innovative institutes and centers. From an academic standpoint, they help shape the discussion about topical legal issues. From a practical perspective, professors and students involved in the programs shape real-life legal events – whether freeing wrongfully convicted inmates in California or training more than 2,000 lawyers and judges in Latin America.
California Western is dedicated to providing service to the California Western community, including students, faculty, staff, alumni, and trustees. The library holds more than 297,000 volumes, approxi-
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mately 3,870 serial subscriptions, microforms currently equivalent to 137,000 volumes, audio and video tapes, computer software, and interactive videos. The library also offers an excellent computer lab. The complete collection is open to law students with a valid ID and to members of the bar. The library is not open to the general public.
Text 32. Santa Clara University
(School of Law)
Santa Clara University is the oldest university in California and was founded in 1851. The School of Law opened in 1912 and continues to educate men and women for careers in law, business, and government and public service. The curriculum is designed to provide our graduates with the skills and values necessary for success in a variety of careers and the ability to serve their communities as competent and ethical counselors and problem-solvers. Moreover, the School of Law curriculum and its co-curricular and extra-curricular programs provide opportunities for the development of lawyering skills and a deeper understanding of legal rules and policy in several cutting-edge areas of law. The intellectual property program is nationally recognized for the excellence of its faculty and the pertinence of its wide range of technology and intellectual property courses. The international law program provides opportunities for students to understand the global world in which lawyers work and to study law and legal systems in other countries. The School of Law’s public interest law program, which has been honored by national public interest law organizations, offers a variety of programs for law students, plus clinical programs on campus and at the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center.
If you attend Santa Clara University’s School of Law, you will have an opportunity to study law with a distinguished faculty of national and international reputation. The faculty is dedicated to excellence in teaching and to the production of legal and interdisciplinary scholarship that influences courts, policy-makers, and law reform efforts.
Santa Clara University School of Law will excel in preparing its students to meet the challenges of a legal profession that is increasing-
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ly global, technologically sophisticated, and culturally diverse. In fulfilling this vision, the Law School is dedicated to educating lawyers of competence, conscience and compassion. (Adopted in principle by faculty on 2/4/00). The School of Law is thus dedicated to:
The training of lawyers with uncompromising standards of excellence in service to their clients and to society;
An emphasis on ethical considerations in the legal process;
Full participation of the legal academic community in the larger University community;
A diverse community of men and women devoted to freedom of inquiry and freedom of expression;
Excellence in teaching and scholarly research;
A balance of the rigorous and the humane in student-teacher relationships;
A curriculum addressing the fundamental demands of law practice and the evolving needs of society; and
Endeavors outside the University that reflect high moral standards and professional excellence.
Text 33. Florida State University
(College of Law)
According to U.S. News & World Report, one of the biggest complaints college students have about their educational experience is the lack of access to professors. At the Florida State University College of Law, we put a high priority on student and faculty interaction. We believe our intimate, small law school atmosphere allows students to get the most out of their education. This atmosphere fits with our philosophy of legal training, which places emphasis on a liberal arts orientation and professional skills. Our academic program reflects a big-picture approach to the study of law and relies on dynamic relationships between students and professors. We believe that it is important for our students to understand the history and philosophy of law as well as the economic, social and psychological influences on it. At the same time,
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it is important that students continue to develop the knowledge that they gained as undergraduates. Refining the timeless legal skills of critical thinking, writing, oral expression and advocacy is best achieved through a partnership of students and faculty. Although there are many measures of success of a legal education, one indicator is the passage rate by recent law school graduates on the state bar exam. Through the years, FSU law alumni have ranked at or near the top of alumni from all Florida law schools in the percentage of those passing the bar exam. An Elite Faculty When a recent national survey counted the College of Law faculty among an elite group of fourteen law faculties in the country, it confirmed what Florida State law students and recent graduates have known for years. The College of Law is an excellent choice for a legal education. The Educational Quality Rankings of U.S. Law Schools, published out of the University of Texas, lists FSU among such law schools as New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown and University of California, Berkeley, for its hiring of outstanding faculty. The distinction reflects both teaching quality and scholarly production by faculty members.
Florida State law students have the opportunity to study with some of the most vibrant minds in legal education. Faculty research and publication have earned international recognition in such areas as environmental law, religion and the law, business partnerships and international human rights. Florida State law faculty are engaged in intellectual property issues involving medicine for AIDS patients in Africa; they have provided reports for the United Nations on the environmental health of oceans; they are re-establishing legal education in Cambodia, and they have developed interactive international trade courses that pair Florida State law students with students in Shanghai, China. So what does a great faculty mean for Florida State law students? First, respected, well-connected professors can provide students networking opportunities that frequently lead to employment. It also means that Florida State students are trained to be competitive without being cut-throat. In short, they are prepared to succeed. Prime Location: No law school in Florida is better situated to offer law stu-
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dents more opportunities than Florida State. As the capital of one the nation’s most populous states, Tallahassee is a place where important decisions are made. Because the College of Law is only blocks from the state capitol, the Florida Supreme Court, the First District Court of Appeal and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, College of Law students have the unique opportunity to see laws and policy developed, legislated and litigated. Just as important for students is the fact that some of the country’s most prestigious law firms have established offices in Florida’s capital city. Holland & Knight, Foley & Lardner, and Greenberg Traurig, listed among the nation’s highest-grossing law firms by the Am Law rating service, have offices blocks from the state capitol and the law school. Why are these firms located in Tallahassee when their other offices are in cities with populations many times larger? As the state capital of the fourth largest state, they understand that Tallahassee is a place where decisions that shape the future are made, not just for Florida, but also for the nation. The College of Law’s location provides students the opportunity to choose from a wide range of clerkship, externship and clinical opportunities, the majority of them in the Tallahassee area. In their second and third years of law school, students have ample opportunity to work part-time in law offices and public agencies. Students often come away from these assignments with much more than on-the-job experience: They receive a job offer.
Professional Success: A solid education and success on the Bar Exam means Florida State law graduates experience unprecedented success in the job market. In recent years, Florida State graduates have ranked either first or second among graduates of all Florida law schools in finding employment within nine months of graduation. The College of Law's 7,000 alumni practice in all areas of the law in all sections of the country. They also use their legal training in other professions as well. They work in prestigious big-city law firms and in small-town solo practices. They are prosecutors, public defenders and attorneys for federal and state agencies and for non-profit public service organizations. They are stockbrokers and security analysts, corporate counsels, CEOs and entrepreneurs. They serve on the Florida Supreme Court and
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