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ciliation and facilitation services for the local community; the Cancer Legal Resource Center serves those dealing with cancer-related legal issues; the Center for Juvenile Justice and Policy advocates for kids in LA's juvenile justice system and works to reform it. Opportunities for student participation are available at every one of these organizations.

Loyola's commitment to global issues is evident-we have one of the most extensive international law programs in the nation. Our students can study issues like rainforest depletion in Central America, corporate securities regulation in the Far East and arbitration of commercial disputes in the European Union in one of our study abroad programs.

Additionally, Loyola faculty teaches at many of the world's leading legal institutions. Law schools from Paris to Santiago, Barcelona to Beijing and Buenos Aires to Vienna call on the expertise of Loyola's professors to teach the finer points of international law. Loyola is also fortunate to draw distinguished faculty members from the best law schools around the world to be visiting professors at Loyola.

Loyola is a major force in the legal community thanks to our 14,000 alums who practice in every possible field of law across the country. Loyola has produced more judges in California than any other school in the state. The New York Times article on the top five trial attorneys in the country named four Loyola grads.

Why are Loyola alums so successful? It's clear-our commitment to their training. Hiring partners regularly tell us that Loyola graduates are better prepared to hit the ground running in their first year of practice than those from other schools. Their great success is in part due to our commitment to our trial advocacy program-Loyola's moot court teams consistently finish at the top in national and international competitions.

Text 17. Whittier College (Whittier Law School)

Whittier Law School, founded in 1966 in Los Angeles as the non-profit stand-alone institution originally known as Beverly Law School, is, for the fifth consecutive year, ranked as one of the most diverse law schools in the nation.

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The Law School has nationally recognized centers in Children’s Rights, Intellectual Property Law, and International & Comparative Law, which host fellows, offer externships, and sponsor symposia and workshops. The Law School also has strengths in business law, criminal law, health law, public interest law, and trial and appellate practice as additional options for students wishing to focus their education.

Whittier Law School’s small faculty/student ratio provides opportunities for close interaction with distinguished professors, many of whom are recognized both nationally and internationally as experts in their fields. Complementing classroom instruction, the Law School offers an extensive externship program and a large menu of clinical legal education offerings. Whittier Law School’s clinics serve the public in the following areas: children’s rights, special education, family violence, health care access, and legal policy.

Our 15-acre campus is beautiful on the outside and high-tech on the inside. Ducks play in the fountain pools, and law students lounge, socialize and study in the tranquil Quad.

The buildings incorporate educational technology and multimedia classrooms with Internet connections. Advanced technology and traditional academia blend to provide enriching and stimulating legal education.

Much of your law career will be spent in reading and researching legal matters. Whittier Law School provides a comprehensive, state- of-the art library for its students, faculty, and the legal community.

Our 45,000-square-foot Law Library is open more than 100 hours per week and contains in excess of 350,000 volumes to aid students with instruction and research, and serves as a California state and federal depository. The Library provides professional services for day and evening students. It is the largest law library between Los Angeles and San Diego.

Whittier Law School offers a wealth of resources for you to pursue a career in a variety of legal areas including Business Law, Criminal Law, Public Interest Law, Trial and Appellate Law, the burgeoning fields of Intellectual Property Law, International Law, or Children's Rights.

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Through our programs, you will gain hands on work experience in a multitude of environments.

The Law School's externship program provides practical experience in a variety of practice settings, including public interest law firms, the court systems, and public agencies.

The Law School's Public Interest Law Program prepares the student who wants to pursue a public interest practice, offering more than twodozen courses, many clinic and externship opportunities, and a postgraduate Loan Repayment Assistance Program to support such efforts.

The Law School also offers Concentrations in Business Law and Criminal Law, where upon graduation a notation is awarded on the student's diploma and transcript indicating completion of the requirements for the Concentration.

Whittier Law offers many courses in Trial and Appellate Law and our clinic and externship opportunities prepare students for court and dispute resolution. In addition, the Law School hosts Moot Court Competitions overseen by the Moot Court Honors Board, which advance a student's skill in brief-writing and oral advocacy before appellate courts.

The Center for Children's Rights (CCR) provides fellowships and externships, as well as hosts a variety of clinics, the National Juvenile Law Moot Court Competition, symposia, and the Whittier Journal of Child and Family Advocacy, one of the few journals devoted to child and family advocacy.

Our Center for Intellectual Property Law (CIPL) and Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL) present an array of offerings through their Certificate Programs, Distinguished Speaker Series, Symposiums, and Summer Institute. The Centers expand their services by creating career opportunities through Fellowships and externships.

In addition to our Centers, the Law School offers opportunities to study abroad in five countries across the globe. Adding to the international flavor, exchange programs with France and Spain present experiences for Whittier students to participate in foreign legal education institutions. The LL.M. Degree in U.S. Legal Studies for Foreign Lawyers provides global perspectives to our student population on campus.

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The Law School also helps you succeed in Law School, prepares you for the Bar, and trains you to think and write as lawyer with our The Institute for Student and Graduate Academic Support and The Institute for Legal Writing and Professional Skills.

The Full-Time program takes three-years to complete. Classes are scheduled Monday through Friday, with an occasional advancedelective course offered on Saturday. The classes vary in length from one to three hours. A Full-Time student is required to take between 12 and 15 units per semester. Students should anticipate studying three hours for every hour of class. Full-Time students are admitted in the fall and spring semesters.

Text 18. Peoples College of Law

Peoples College of Law is a small, fully licensed, degreegranting law school located in downtown Los Angeles, California offering a four-year evening Juris Doctorate program to accommodate working students.

Peoples College of Law was founded in 1974 as a non-profit, community-run law school to bring legal resources to underrepresented communities and train legal advocates to secure progressive social change and justice in society.

We only admit those students who, regardless of their quite varied political, spiritual, cultural or social backgrounds, have demonstrated a commitment to progressive social change, have an awareness of working class issues and will employ the skills gained at the school to further these goals in their own way. Thus, if you want to be a prosecutor or a corporate attorney, don't waste our time applying; there are plenty of other schools out there for you!

Our graduates work as lawyers, state and federal administrative judges and commissioners, activists and union organizers, labor and legislative leaders (including the Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa). All have shared the unique and galvanizing experience of graduating from the only non-competitive, cooperative, student and community-run, progressive law school in the world!

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PCL was created to bring legal resources to under-represented communities and train legal advocates who will secure progressive social change and justice in society. Our goals are 1) to train advocates for human rights, tenants' rights, women's rights, gay rights, consumer rights, workers' rights; to fight discrimination, economic and political oppression, abuse of power, and 2) to enable and empower those who have been historically denied legal resources and protections.

If you are NOT comfortable advocating for the working class, the poor, the disabled, the incarcerated, minority groups, women, immigrants, environmentalists, anti-war activists, or the gay community, (just to name a few), PCL is not the place for you; PCL was created to defend, and actively recruits people from these particular communities.

Text 19. San Francisco Law School

San Francisco Law School is the oldest evening law school in the western United States. It incorporated in 1909 and has been a nonprofit since 1941. Since its inception, San Francisco Law School has been dedicated to providing a quality legal education to its students who, while attending law school, also maintaining daytime jobs and family responsibilities.

San Francisco Law School was one of the first in California to actively seek out and enroll women and minority students. The Law School's commitment is ongoing. The student body is made up of mature men and women, representing many different professions and aspirations. This diversity lends a dynamic element to the academic community.

San Francisco Law School strives to maintain an affordable program for its students and, thus, tuition is quite moderate. It is easily accessible for those who work and live in San Francisco Law School and the Bay Area.

San Francisco Law School is proud of its tradition of having practicing attorneys and judges as its faculty. Thus, our students receive the most current information in their courses.

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San Francisco Law School has been accredited continuously since 1937 by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. Graduates of the Law School are eligible to practice law in the State of California upon passage of the California Bar Examination.

"Study at, or graduation from, this law school may not qualify a student to take the bar examination in other states or satisfy the requirements to practice law in other states. If a student intends to seek admission to practice law in a state other than California, the student should contact the admitting authority in that state for information regarding the legal education requirements for admission to practice law."

Text 20. University of California, Los Angeles

(UCLA School of Law)

UCLA School of Law is the youngest top law school in the nation. At fifty-five years old, our school has never felt bound by outmoded ideas of how law should be taught or studied. Instead, beginning in the 1950s, UCLA created its own tradition - a tradition of innovation. We maintain this tradition persistently, building off our past successes as we propel our school, and students, into a future of unparalleled distinction.

For example, while many law school deans, alumni, and students decry the disconnect between what goes on in the classroom and what lawyers do in the “real world,” UCLA School of Law has taken a leading role in bridging this gap. Beginning in the early 1970s, under the leadership of Professor David Binder, UCLA’s clinics were the first in the nation to teach students systematically about the link between theory and practical skills. This commitment to integrating theory and practice continues today in our extraordinary array of simulated transaction courses and live-client clinics covering the waterfront of practice areas from mergers and acquisitions to workers’ rights and environmental law.

UCLA also has been in the forefront of efforts to link research to what goes on outside the ivory tower. Increasingly, many of us who teach and write about legal issues understand the importance of learning more about the effects law has on society and on the legal profes-

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sion. Because law professors typically lack postgraduate training in statistics and because data gathering is expensive and timeconsuming, the school created an Empirical Research Group (ERG) in 1999 to work with faculty in designing and implementing sophisticated studies. The ERG has been instrumental in helping our faculty do path breaking research on subjects as diverse as the impact of living wage laws on employment and the bankruptcy laws on corporations.

In the last century, think tanks have become an indispensable part of our political system. Beginning in the 1990s, UCLA School of Law created policy centers that enabled the best minds to gather together and focus on policy and legal issues free of partisan influence and ideological biases. UCLA School of Law is proud to lay claim to three such institutions, including The Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law, the ERG, and the Environmental Law Center, which meet the highest standards of knowledge production. They provide invaluable information for legislators, the judiciary, and the public; and provide critical training for the legal community, students, and tomorrow’s academic and political leaders.

Our academic offerings are second to none. We are one of four law schools in the top twenty to offer a degree concentration in Business Law and Policy. We are the only school in the nation to offer a degree concentration in Critical Race Studies. We have one of the best Programs in Public Interest Law and Policy of any school across the country. The depth and breadth of our offerings in areas ranging from Constitutional Law to Indian Law are unmatched at any other school.

Our respected alumni have blazed paths of excellence in a wide array of industries, changing the way lawyers and legislators approach issues, becoming respected judges throughout the country, and changing the face of legal service.

Our commitment to recruiting and retaining the best faculty in the country is unwavering. Over the last ten years, we have added 29 members to the faculty, comprised of the country’s top legal minds in the areas of Bankruptcy, Corporate Law, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, Entertainment Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual

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Property, Islamic Law, and Tax Law. Our faculty scholarship on groundbreaking issues such as Anti-Terrorism, Asian Law, Native American Law, Corporate Law, Critical Race Theory, Law and Society, and Legal History have generated spirited discussions among the international legal community. Through these newer members of our faculty, working alongside our established experts, we are emerging as the strongest faculty in the nation.

In every facet of our institution, through the amazing work of our faculty and staff, and embodied by our diverse and academically astute student body, UCLA School of Law is truly dedicated to pushing the field of law forward and upholding our own tradition of progressive teaching, influential scholarship, and enduring innovation.

UCLA School of Law is proud to have some of the nation's most diverse, intelligent and promising students of law. As an institution, we are committed to making a world-class legal education available to men and women, regardless of their background. This commitment to access is part of the public mission we embrace that makes our school so distinctive.

There are approximately 950 J.D. students enrolled across all three years of study. Each August, about 300 women and men enter our community as first-year students, approximately 35 enter our se- cond-year class as transfer students and approximately 15 enter our master of laws program. All degree programs at UCLA School of Law is offered on a full-time basis only. The academic year, comprising two semesters, extends from mid-August through mid-May. There are no evening or summer study programs available.

UCLA School of Law also boasts over 10 student-run organizations and over 30 student-run journals, on a variety of topics that affect today's world.

In order to improve access to students from all walks of life, we are proud of our Law Fellows Outreach Program, which reaches out to high-potential high school and college students with strong academic backgrounds who have had limited exposure to collegiate education and helps them understand what they need to do to succeed at top national law schools.

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Text 21. University of La Verne

(College of Law)

The College of Law focuses on your success through smaller classes, greater emphasis on the individual and personalized career development. Most notably, it is a progressive environment infused with excitement, intellectual challenge and vast opportunity.

Our Mission: To teach our students to be effective legal professionals who use their skills and talents for the benefit of their communities, to imbue these students with pride in the legal profession, and to promote diversity within the law school community, accomplished by providing full-time and part-time law programs with high academic standards.

Our Goals: To merit recognition as one of southern California’s leading law schools and to be known as the preeminent ABA approved law school serving the regional needs of inland southern California.

We will achieve these goals by providing our students with a quality legal education in which they gain an understanding of the practice of law, develop dedication to the needs of individual clients, and value the promotion of justice carried out with integrity and civility.

In January 2001, the University of La Verne College of Law opened the doors to its state-of-the-art law campus in the City of Ontario, in Southern California’s Inland Empire region. The College of Law is located on a seven acre site next to the Ontario Civic Center and the new City Library. With a spacious Atrium Tower and other amenities, the College of Law building has approximately 64,000 square feet. A large grass lawn and park area, with tables and benches, on the north side of the building provide shade trees and places for students to relax. Parking for 300 cars is provided in a lot immediately adjacent to the law school.

The College of Law campus was designed to give students ready access to technology. The Computer Lab has up-to-date student workstations, and students have Internet access throughout campus via a combination of hardwired and wireless connections. Classrooms are equipped with the latest in audiovisual technologies to enhance the

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classroom experience, and the College of Law’s moot courtroom includes a custom designed audio-video system used for trial or appellate exercises and instruction.

The rigorous academic program of the College of Law is designed to provide grounding in legal theory, lawyering skills, and ethics – areas critical to the modern practice of law. Successful completion of the JD degree at the University of La Verne College of Law requires completion of a total of 88 units.

In order to provide a complete and comprehensive legal education, the College of Law has structured the curriculum so that the general legal education is related to the actual practice of law. Legal research and the writing of legal memoranda are expected in several courses. Required courses and many regularly offered electives stress the practical application of legal rules. In addition, the Lawyering Skills Practicum and clinical externship programs provide opportunities to counsel clients and effectively represent varied legal positions. As a result, JD recipients from the College of Law enter the legal profession not only with a solid comprehension of the law, but also with a strong understanding of professional expectations and rules of conduct in the practice of law.

The clinical externship program places upper-division students with public agencies or non-profit law firms to provide an opportunity to study the legal process through community-based clinical placements and to apply the knowledge and skills developed in law school in a practical setting. Clinical externships allow students to perform practice-related activities, such as interviewing clients or witnesses, factual investigation, discovery, counseling and negotiating, making court appearances, and legal research and writing.

The law library is located 36 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. It occupies 27,000 square feet and holds approximately 280,000 volumes and volume equivalents. This state-of-the-art facility offers wireless Internet access, a computer lab with enhanced audio-visual capabilities, 10 study/conference rooms and a seating capacity that accommodates 300 library users.

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