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The University of La Verne College of Law Library strives to provide the highest level of legal information service possible. Our primary purpose is to support the study, teaching, and research needs of the students, faculty, and staff of the College of Law. Our secondary purpose is to support the legal research needs of the larger University of La Verne community. The College of Law Library is the only major academic law library in the Inland Empire and serves as the largest law library in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

Therefore, we also provide access to legal materials and information to the local legal community and members of the public from the surrounding area. As a state and federal depository library, we provide the public with convenient access to government documents.

The College of Law offers many services to assist its students. The Office of the Assistant Dean of Students serves as the principal liaison for the students with the administration, assists the students in achieving their educational goals, and administers programs concerning student life and activities at the College of Law.

Text 22. University of San Diego

(School of Law)

Founded in 1954, the University of San Diego School of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association, and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools and the Order of the Coif, the most distinguished rank of American law schools. The law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, nonprofit, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.

USD is a member of the Order of the Coif, the most distinguished rank of American law schools.

USD is one of the most selective law schools in the country. The average LSAT score is in approximately the 89th percentile. With approximately 48 percent women and 31 percent minorities, our diverse student body contributes to USD's unique atmosphere. USD is ranked 35th nationally for the diversity of its student body.

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USD graduates practice law throughout the United States, from New York to San Francisco. Students come to USD from about 42 states, 18 countries and over 140 undergraduate institutions. Ranging in age from 20 to 58, students have a wealth of education and experience.

USD graduates consistently score higher than the state average as first-time takers of the California Bar Exam, one of the most difficult in the country. USD's first-time taker passage rate for the July 2005 California Bar Examination was 80 percent, the sixth highest of all ABA-accredited law schools in the state.

Career Services helps students achieve their career objectives. Each fall, more than 225 interviewers, including the country's top law firms, contact USD students as part of an extensive recruiting process. Among USD alumni are partners and associates at prestigious law firms throughout the country, important government officials, federal and state judges, and corporate executives.

USD moot court and mock trial teams are regular winners of state, national and international competitions, and the school's extensive and diverse trial advocacy and clinical programs have been consistently recognized for excellence. The Pardee Legal Research Center (LRC), a state-of-the-art facility regarded as one of the best academic law libraries in the country, contains more than 530,000 volumes and volume equivalents and houses a computer lab for training students in the most advanced legal research techniques. The LRC is 11th in the nation in unique title counts, placing it first on the west coast.

USD has one of the highest rated law faculties in the United States, ranking 23rd in the nation based on scholarly impact according to a recent survey. In April 2006, USD was ranked 9th in the nation in tax law. Eleven faculty members belong to the prestigious law reform group, the American Law Institute.

Faculty members enjoy national reputations in many areas, including administrative law, children's advocacy, civil rights, commercial law, constitutional law, criminal law, international and comparative law, professional ethics, public interest law, tax law, and interdisciplinary studies, including law and economics, and law and philosophy.

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To enrich the educational experience, USD regularly attracts outstanding visiting faculty drawn from the nation's elite law schools and finest law firms, as well as an array of distinguished speakers. Among our recent speakers were U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and John Paul Stevens.

Text 23. Pepperdine University

(Pepperdine University School of Law)

To learn the law is to understand for perhaps the first time one's place in a community and society whose freedoms and privileges are both defined and guaranteed by the law. Almost every area in daily American life is touched by the legal practice. Thus, the ability to control one's own interactions in those areas and the potential to help others in them are powerful skills. But almost everyone who holds a juris doctor agrees that the process of learning the law is one of the most challenging experiences in a lifetime. Not only must the language of the law be mastered new word by new word, but learning to think analytically almost inevitably requires an examination of many things that had once seemed immutable.

Pepperdine University School of Law seeks to provide a few highly qualified students with the opportunity to pursue an academically challenging program in a unique and exciting environment. The student body possesses exceptional intelligence, as well as diversity, and rich and varied talents. Students will be surrounded by others who were also at the top of their undergraduate academic class, leaders in extracurricular activities, and active participants in their community. Alumni will leave prepared to enter positions as counselors, advocates, and judges; they will enter careers in business fields, as well as becoming writers and teachers of the law. We urge you to explore our Web site for a glimpse into this exciting place.

The mission of Pepperdine University School of Law is to provide highly qualified students with a superior legal education. The school seeks to prepare students for positions as counselors, advocates, and judges; as business persons; and as researchers, teachers,

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and philosophers of the law. These ends are furthered by a program of academic excellence combined with practical experience.

The school's Christian emphasis leads to a special concern for imbuing students with the highest principles of professional, ethical, and moral responsibility. An effort is made to call together a faculty, staff, and student body who wish to share this experience of quality legal education in a value-centered context. It is the philosophy of the School of Law that lawyers best serve the interests of their clients, as well as the interests of society, when they possess a genuine commitment to high standards of personal conduct and professional responsibility. Therefore, the school tries to convey to its students not only the knowledge of how to employ the law, but also an awareness of the responsibilities to society that accompany the power inherent in that knowledge.

The faculty and administration of the School of Law are committed to the proposition that the way in which they approach students, both personally and professionally, will shape the student's perception of the law and the role of lawyers. Both faculty and administration must, therefore, adhere to the highest standards of moral and ethical conduct, exhibit a concern for the total education and personal wellbeing of students, and uphold the ideal of the personal dignity of each individual. One significant manifestation of this faculty and administrative role is the emphasis placed on counseling students. Both faculty and administrators continually reaffirm their commitment to serving the needs of students and to being available to students. The faculty and administration believe that this role model concept is integral to improving the profession and accomplishing the mission of the law school.

The School of Law provides an excellent legal education within a values centered context. One of the most rapidly developing law schools in the country, it is fully approved by the American Bar Association, and holds membership in the Association of American Law Schools. It has a limited enrollment of about 670 full-time students who come from across the nation and around the world to study law in a unique, supportive environment. Among its newest degree offerings are the LLM in Dispute Resolution, administered by the School of Law’s

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internationally acclaimed Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and the Juris Doctor/Master of Divinity, in conjunction with Seaver College. Other joint degree programs include the JD/MBA, JD/MPP, and JD/MDR. It has a fall semester and summer session in London, where students may study international law in one of Europe’s most exciting cities. The School of Law is also home to the Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics, and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law.

Pepperdine University School of Law is on the list of law schools approved by the American Bar Association, holds membership in the Association of American Law Schools, and is fully accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners, State Bar of California. Graduates are eligible to apply for admission to practice in any state.

The School of Law occupies the Odell McConnell Law Center, located on the university’s 830-acre campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, California. The facility contains the Jerene Appleby Harnish Library, the Irvine Lecture Hall, the Henry and Gloria Caruso Auditorium, the Salathé Library Wing and Classroom, the Mendenhall Courtroom, the Gunder Conference Room, the Rainey Conference Room, the Smith Atrium, the Stauffer Administrative Center and Tower, the Di Loreto Dining Room and Patio, the Darling Trial Courtroom, the Armand Arabian Judge’s Chamber, the Duane and Lucille Faw Student Lounge, the Stegall Faculty Wing, the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, the Hirsch Classroom, the Garner Conference Room, the Jones Administrative Suite, the Brock Conference Room, the Karns and Karabian Faculty Library, the Fineman Faculty Lounge, the Thompson Terrace, classrooms, faculty offices, a bookstore, and offices for student services and activities.

Historically, the prospective lawyer learned law through a clinical, skilloriented experience. This was accomplished by performing the tasks of a lawyer in the office of a practitioner. Later it was realized that such an education was deficient because it did not provide law students with a foundation in the history and reasoning behind the various areas of law. Legal education then undertook a radical transformation and became almost exclusively a classroom experience.

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Recent years have seen a trend back to the inclusion of structured clinical experiences as a valuable part of the education of a lawyer. Pepperdine students have various clinical law opportunities available to them. The externship program places students in actual practice settings in both criminal and civil law, offering experience in interviewing, counseling, negotiating, mediating, advocating, drafting, and planning. Under rules approved by the California State Bar Board of Governors, students may be certified to engage in taking depositions, or trying certain types of cases before a court or administrative tribunal, all under the supervision of a practicing attorney. Students may be placed with a corporation, the district attorney or public defender, public interest legal agencies, or the state or federal judiciary, and they gain practical experience in such areas of law as corporate, entertainment, business, tax, criminal prosecution and defense, juvenile, domestic, labor, and consumer protection. Pepperdine also offers its students the opportunity to participate in its in-house clinics. The Special Education Clinic, directed by Richard Peterson, provides a unique opportunity for students to gain valuable experience advocating for children with disabilities, to ensure that they receive appropriate education and related services as required by law. The Pepperdine/Union Rescue Mission Legal Aid Clinic serves the men and women who live on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. Students volunteer at the mission, under the direction of Attorney Director Brittany String fellow Otey, where they meet with residents regarding their legal problems. Last year, Pepperdine reinstituted its Family Law Clinic. Students work on family law issues arising out of cases at the Union Rescue Mission. Professor Otey directs that clinic as well. In addition, Pepperdine continues its collaboration with Public Counsel in coordinating an adoption clinic, and during the summer, the Clinical Program awards stipends to students working at public interest law offices. Examples of such placements include the International Justice Mission, Legal Aid, and Bet Tzedek. The varied backgrounds and experiences of the faculty, most of whom have had significant law practice experience, contribute substantially to the student’s understanding of the profession.

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Faculty positions are filled by individuals who have achieved a high level of competence in their areas of the law, who possess scholarly aptitudes and the ability to communicate effectively in a classroom setting, and who also demonstrate, through their own lives, strong identification with the mission of the School of Law. All juris doctor students are automatically members of the Student Bar Association. The officers of the Student Bar are elected by the student body. The Student Bar serves the student body by sponsoring social and educational functions during the year and by representing the students in matters involving the school administration. The Student Bar also establishes and maintains relations with the local bar associations in order to foster extracurricular activities that will help the individual student to develop socially and professionally in the community. The Pepperdine University Law Review is a legal journal edited and published by School of Law students selected on the basis of scholarship and/or the ability to do creative research and writing. The students write comments and notes on legal developments and significant cases, as well as edit the lead articles and book reviews written by teachers, lawyers, judges, legislators, and other scholars. Membership on the Law Review staff is recognized as both an honor and a unique educational experience. Invitations for law review participation are extended to second-year students who ranked academically in the top ten percent of their first-year class. Additional students are admitted by a “write-on” competition, open to second-year students who ranked academically in the top fifty percent of their first-year class.

Text 24. Southwestern Law School

The only law school with four courses of study leading to the J.D. degree, Southwestern Law School offers traditional full-time and part-time programs as well as a unique two-year alternative curriculum. The campus includes the extraordinary Bullocks Wilshire building, a world-renowned historic Art Deco landmark that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The only Los Angeles area law

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school on a subway route, Southwestern is within a block of the Wilshire Center Metro Rail station providing convenient access to businesses, courts and government offices in the downtown district, Hollywood and the Valley. Southwestern alumni include public officials-from members of Congress to mayors, district attorneys, and over 200 judges - as well as founders of major law firms and general counsels of multinational corporations. Founded in 1911 as an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian institution, Southwestern is approved by the ABA, and is a member of the AALS. A Commitment to Diversity Southwestern Law School is one of the most diverse law school communities in the country. Since its founding in 1911, Southwestern has been in the forefront of encouraging the enrollment of women and minorities, and continues to promote diversity among the student body and faculty through a variety of avenues. Students. The approximately 980 students enrolled at Southwestern come from virtually every state in the nation as well as a dozen foreign countries and represent over 240 undergraduate institutions. Nearly half have earned academic honors, while many are fluent in one or more foreign language including Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese. About two-thirds have prior work experience or have already completed advanced degrees in diverse disciplines from accounting to urban planning. The student body is equally divided between men and women and minorities represent over 37%. Faculty The Southwestern faculty also represents a variety of backgrounds and interests. Of the more than 50 full-time faculty members, over a third are women and 20% percent are minorities. This distinguished group of legal scholars includes nationally recognized experts on antitrust, bankruptcy, criminal law and procedure, entertainment and sports law, evidence, family law, housing and community development, international law and labor law. Diversity Awards Southwestern has received formal recognition for its emphasis on diversity from such organizations as the California Minority Counsel, which awarded the law school the LEXIS-NEXIS Law School Racial and Ethnic Diversity Award, citing Southwestern's

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"long history of encouraging diversity, its comprehensive efforts in admissions, financial aid, academic support and placement, support of its diverse student organizations, and its community outreach programs;" the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles which presented Southwestern with the Myra Bradwell Award (the first law school to be so honored) for "promoting and advancing women lawyers and issues important to women;" and Hispanic Business magazine, which has recognized Southwestern as one of the "top law schools for Hispanic students" for several years running. Academic Support Southwestern is not only committed to accepting a diverse group of qualified applicants, but to retaining and graduating these students. This commitment is demonstrated in the law school's strong Academic Support Program. Students in this program attend a two-week summer session and meet weekly during the academic year to review writing and study skills, as well as examination techniques. An additional component of the program conducted during the school year is open to all firstyear students. In addition to the formal support program, students can also take advantage of academic counseling, and a mentor program which pairs all first-year students with continuing students who can provide insight and guidance into the law school experience.

Text 25. University of San Francisco

(School of Law)

At USF, our goal is to educate students to be effective lawyers with a social conscience, high ethical standards and a global perspective. We emphasize professional skills and quality classroom teaching. Our students learn not only how lawyers think, they also practice doing what is required of lawyers to help clients solve problems and resolve conflicts. Studying law at USF offers the beauty, diversity, culture, recreation and climate of San Francisco. It also offers exceptional learning, practice, placement and service opportunities for students.

USF offers full-time and part-time programs leading to the Juris Doctor degree, as well as a full-time concurrent degree program leading to Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration degrees.

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USF also offers a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree program in Comparative Law and International Transactions for foreign lawyers who have first degrees in law from a non-American university, as well as Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law for foreign and American lawyers.

All programs offer an intellectually rewarding curriculum preparing graduates to be effective members of the legal community. Instruction emphasizes development of analytical and communication skills while stressing the entire range of a lawyer's professional and social responsibilities. Full-time faculty teach courses along with distinguished jurists and practitioners from the local legal community who serve as adjunct faculty members.

A strong faculty interest in students and in teaching sets USF apart. Faculty members are especially accessible, and make particular effort to be available to students outside the classroom. The faculty and administration are committed to enhancing each student's personal development and strive to create a challenging but supportive environment.

Many classes focus on lawyering skills and students are encouraged to obtain practical lawyering experience. The curriculum includes a focus on contemporary urban issues and the law related conflicts of society. At the same time, the educational program accommodates the changing range of practice with programs and courses designed to prepare graduates for international law and alternative approaches to decision making and dispute resolution.

As a member of the Association of American Law Schools, USF maintains high standards relating to entrance requirements, faculty, library and curriculum. USF is approved by the American Bar Association, through the Council of its Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, and is fully accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California as well as by the Board of Regents of the State of New York. USF is also a member of the Conference of Western Law Schools, the Conference of Jesuit Law Schools, and the Law School Admission Council. USF graduates are eligible to take bar examinations in all jurisdictions of the United States.

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