Dean’s Corner February 2016
The University of La Verne College of Law has been on an upward trajectory for the past four years. Starting with the creation of the Center for Academic & Bar Readiness in the Summer of 2012, the College of Law has steadily increased its enrollment, developed a consistently acceptable bar performance by its graduates, implemented a curriculum grounded in doctrine, values, and skills and modeled affordability to the legal academy.
The La Verne Model of Legal Education represents a bold step into the future and sets us up as the forerunners in the training and education of our Nation’s lawyers and leaders. States begin to require more than doctrinal learning from graduates wishing to practice in their jurisdiction.
California recently considered a 15 credit requirement of experiential learning for law graduates wishing to practice in the state. New York recently enacted rules and regulations that require individuals seeking to practice in the Empire State to complete one of three pathways to satisfy the skills competency and values requirements for admission to the bar.
One of those pathways is for the law school to developed “a plan identifying and incorporating into its curriculum the skills and professional values that, in the school’s judgment, are required for its graduates’ basic competence and ethical participation in the legal profession, as required by American Bar Association Standards and Rules of Procedure for the Approval of Law Schools Standard 302(b), (c) and (d), and has made this plan publicly available on the law school’s website.”
While some, if not many, law schools may face the challenge of providing that pathway, the curriculum at La Verne Law already satisfies this requirement. It is this progressive approach that is ahead of the curve in the direction of legal education that makes La Verne Law the most unique law school in the nation.
I invite you to explore La Verne Law online and through the E-Newsletter and see how we are uniquely in the “dream-making” business.
