Arizona Summit Law School in downtown Phoenix is an embarrassment of a law school wrapped in a paean to diversity and opportunity. But the nearby trash-strewn alley of graffiti is pretty cool.
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The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, aka Arizona State University College of Law, is one of two great public law schools in this booming state. ASU tends to edge University of Arizona in rankings, but both offer strong…
The California Desert Trial Academy in Indio is an only-in-California law school type we’ll call the In-N-Out. Drive to the outer fringe of Indio and you will find the Dolan Law Office. If you go around the back of the building…
The University of San Diego School of Law is easily the premier law school in San Diego – and with good reason. Led by Dean Stephen Ferruolo, a former Biglaw partner, the school takes seriously its mission of educating future leaders of San Diego’s legal and business communities, as well as its judiciary and government.
Thomas Jefferson School of Law in downtown San Diego would be stellar if it were an unaccredited correspondence law school in Barstow. Trouble is, it’s an ABA-accredited institution in a gleaming $90 million eight-story tower in downtown San Diego with a stunningly horrible 30 percent employment rate…
We can say this about Western Sierra Law School: It has an address. It does not have a correct address in the office park where it sits adjacent to a run-down airstrip, sharing space with credit collectors, but it does have an address.
There is at least one thing Loyola Law School Los Angeles does better than anyone else – produce first-rate trial lawyers who clean up in court. That’s not to say it doesn’t produce Biglaw partners, local politicos and judges.
The fifth law school in the University of California system, UC Irvine is a terrific law school. Helmed by the wonderful Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, the school attracted a top-rate faculty, a great inaugural class and rounded every base to win accreditation and elite national ranking in record time.
Pepperdine is among the nation’s more glamorous law schools, thanks to its Malibu location. It’s solidly among the second tier of Southern California’s 12 ABA-accredited law schools, and excels in dispute resolution, tax and entertainment.
In February, Lawdragon Campus decided to hit the road and visit every law school in the United States. We’ve visited 82 schools so far, with many more to come.