The PowerScore Law School Spotlight gives you a snapshot of a different law school each week.
For more information about each profiled institution, be sure to check out the school’s website.

UC Irvine School of Law (commonly known as UCI Law) is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

UC Irvine School of Law, the first new public law school in California in more than 40 years, opened its doors to its first class in August 2009.

UCI Law seeks to create the ideal law school for the twenty-first century by doing the best job in the country of training lawyers for the practice of law at the highest levels of the profession. The Law School’s innovative curriculum stresses hands-on learning, interdisciplinary study, and public service.  Interdisciplinary study is also at the heart of UCI and there are several concurrent degree programs that students may wish to consider.

In June 2011, UC Irvine School of Law was granted provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association. Provisional accreditation means that graduating students can take the bar exam in California without taking a qualifying “baby bar” exam.

“We are extremely pleased to have fielded such a high-caliber student body,” said Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who is also one of the top constitutional scholars in the nation. “Along with a highly rated faculty, this allows us to be considered among the best law schools in the country from the very start,” he said. 

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The PowerScore Law School Spotlight gives you a snapshot of a different law school each week.
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UC Davis School of Law (King Hall) is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

The School of Law at the University of California, Davis, is a national center of legal learning characterized by the scholarly excellence and ambition of its faculty and student body, as well as an abiding commitment to being a diverse community serving the welfare of its constituents and the world around it. It is fully accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The school is housed in a newly expanded state-of-the-art building, King Hall, named for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of his efforts to bring social and political justice to disadvantaged peoples.

The Davis campus, a major research university consistently among the country’s top 20 in research funding, is a little over an hour from San Francisco, and 15 minutes from Sacramento, within easy reach of major recreational areas such as Napa, Carmel, and Lake Tahoe. The campus occupies 3,600 acres within the bike-friendly and charming college town of Davis.

The law school’s idyllic surroundings and close proximity to the Bay Area and the state capital create abundant opportunities for a well-rounded educational and professional experience. The campus offers a full range of excellent graduate and professional programs.

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The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law (commonly known as Penn State Law) is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

Founded in 1834, Penn State Law is the oldest law school in Pennsylvania and the fifth oldest in the nation. The law school embraces the university’s mission to improve the lives of the people of Pennsylvania, the nation, and the world through legal teaching, scholarship, and service.

Our law school is an engaged, diverse, and multidisciplinary intellectual community that challenges students to research, think, and act like lawyers—and to ascend to new heights of academic excellence. Through an intensive and comprehensive program of study that includes both classroom-based and experiential learning, our students are prepared to practice law at the highest level in an increasingly global world. As part of a world-class research university, Penn State Law students have access to extensive academic and programmatic resources to enhance their learning experience. Courses are offered at Penn State’s University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania, and at the law school’s traditional home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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The University of Iowa College of Law (commonly known as Iowa Law) is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

The University of Iowa College of Law, founded in 1865, is the oldest law school in continuous operation west of the Mississippi River. Iowa enjoys a top national reputation, and its faculty is renowned for its outstanding scholarship and teaching.

The college is located in Iowa City, a cosmopolitan college town that is home to a dynamic teaching and research university and over 60,000 people. Students from all 50 states and roughly 100 countries attend the university. Iowa City offers a rich cultural life, Big Ten athletic events, and the world-famous Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

The Boyd Law Building’s central campus location on a bluff overlooking the Iowa River provides a professional enclave well-suited to the college’s intensive style of education as well as easy access to the academic, cultural, social, and recreational resources of a major research university.

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Wake Forest University School of Law (commonly known as WFU Law) is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

Wake Forest University School of Law, established in 1894, is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is a member of the AALS and is ABA-approved. In 1998, the law school was awarded a chapter of the Order of the Coif, a national honorary society.

Wake Forest offers students a solid and personalized legal education. Class sizes are smaller than in virtually any other law school in the nation, with approximately 40 students in each first-year section and about 20 students in first-year legal writing sections.

Faculty members are nationally renowned teachers and scholars. The director of trial advocacy was awarded the Roscoe Pound Foundation’s Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy, and Wake Forest has also received the prestigious Emil Gumpert Award from the American College of Trial Lawyers for its outstanding trial advocacy program. Faculty chairs are held by six of the nation’s most respected authorities in the areas of administrative law, commercial law, sports and entertainment law, constitutional law, torts and product liability, and health care law and policy.

Wake Forest law school embraces seven principal commitments: (1) to maintain a school of the right size that begins with a first-year class of approximately 160 students composed of four sections of about 40 students each; (2) to develop and retain a faculty strong in teaching, experience, and current scholarly writing; (3) to assure that students are taught substantive law, legal research, and writing through the maximum use of leading-edge technology; (4) to continue the school’s emphasis on dispute resolution and litigation skills through instruction, competition, and clinical practice; (5) to build a bridge between law and management communities through an enhanced curriculum, the sharing of resources, and collaborative instruction; (6) to seek to provide career opportunities for our students and graduates that match their potential; and (7) to teach the transcendence of ethics and to inculcate in graduates the importance of doing good while doing well throughout their professional lives.

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The George Washington University Law School (commonly known as GW Law) is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

Established in 1865, the George Washington University Law School is the oldest law school in the District of Columbia. Its history of academic excellence, significant contributions to legal scholarship, and outstanding record of service to the community have earned GW a position of local, national, and international prominence. Its talented student body is one of the most diverse of any national law school, and its students graduate to become leaders in all areas of practice. While GW has long been recognized as a leader in fields including constitutional law, intellectual property law, international law, environmental law, public interest law, government procurement, and clinical education, all of the law school’s academic programs reflect the demands of a changing profession and the global nature of society and the law.

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Florida State University College of Law (commonly known as FSU Law) is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

Florida State University College of Law is recognized as one of the nation’s top-tier law schools in terms of academic reputation. The school encourages close working relationships among students and faculty of the sort that characterize the best liberal arts colleges. Cutting-edge faculty members make it a priority to be available to students outside and inside the classroom.

Our attentive faculty greatly values the insights of other disciplines that can be brought to bear upon the study of law. It is important to the faculty to integrate into the study of law insights from such diverse disciplines as history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, and finance.

Florida State offers law students a wealth of legal employment opportunities. Located in Tallahassee, a city with more than 500 law firms and numerous government agencies, Florida State University College of Law is just steps away from the state Capitol, the Florida Supreme Court, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

The fall 2010 entering class at the Florida State University College of Law had an average LSAT score of 162, with a 164 at the 75th percentile and a 161 at the 25th percentile (the highest LSAT scores in the state of Florida).

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The PowerScore Law School Spotlight gives you a snapshot of a different law school each week.
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University of Colorado Law School is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

Colorado Law, established in 1892, is located on the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado and lies at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. High admission standards, a relatively small student body, and a favorable faculty-to-student ratio assure a stimulating and challenging academic environment that encourages class participation and interaction with faculty. The school is a charter member of the AALS and is ABA approved.

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Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

Founded in 1967, the Arizona State University—Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law combines the best traditions of American legal education with innovative programs supported by strong community partnerships. Our vision includes excellence in all we do, striving to have a meaningful impact on contemporary problems through teaching, research, and collaborative problem-solving. Students are attracted by the quality of the legal education, commitment to innovative teaching and scholarship, reasonable tuition, breadth and depth of the curriculum, numerous opportunities for experiential learning, and excellent student-to-faculty ratio. A busy calendar of conferences, seminars, and speakers enriches the student experience and fosters a strong sense of community. The college has an outstanding faculty, many opportunities for interdisciplinary learning, extensive pro bono opportunities, an exceptional legal writing program, and clinics of significant variety. Our students benefit greatly from the fact that Phoenix is the fifth largest city in the country and a state capital.

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Northwestern University Law School is today’s Law School Spotlight. From LSAC’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools:

Guided by a visionary strategic plan and its recent update, “Plan 2008: Building Great Leaders for the Changing World,” Northwestern University School of Law, founded in 1859, advances the understanding of law and produces graduates prepared to excel in a rapidly changing world. Northwestern Law uniquely blends a rigorous intellectual environment with a collegial and supportive community. With one of the lowest student-to-faculty ratios in the country—9:1—our students have exceptional access to their full-time professors, who comprise the most highly credentialed and interdisciplinary law faculty in the nation. The law school’s lakefront location in the heart of downtown Chicago provides a wealth of part-time employment options for students while in school, and a spectacular setting in which to study law. Northwestern Law’s proximity to courts, commerce, and public interest activities enables students to experience the practice of law, as well as its theory, in one of the most vibrant legal and business communities in the world.

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