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Drake University Law School
Becoming a lawyer means more than just assimilating a body of knowledge. It means joining a community of learning and action - talented students who become your good friends, outstanding faculty who have practiced law and like being lawyers, and lawyers and judges who are truly interested in you. Becoming a lawyer-a good lawyer-cannot be accomplished in isolation.
Drake Law students are immersed in the life of a vibrant legal community through real experience, from clashes over constitutional interpretation in classrooms to child custody battles in local courtrooms.
Since 1993, every student has had the chance to hear a U.S. Supreme Court justice speak at Drake. All first-year students observe a state court trial conducted in a Drake courtroom, an event that replaces regular classes for a week, and discuss the trial each day with experienced lawyers, judges, and professors. After the first year, more than half of our students enroll in clinical courses and represent clients; and nearly all Drake students take advantage of clerkship opportunities in local law firms, courts, companies and government agencies.
University Of Iowa College Of Law
The Iowa Law School is a close-knit professional community in which the lives of students and faculty revolve around the Boyd Law Building, a comfortable place where most of us spend many hours of the day interacting with each other. We seek to maximize the accessibility of the faculty through an "open door" policy toward students.
We expend our substantial resources strategically to embellish the strengths we think are most important to sound legal training. Now in its 17th year of use, the Boyd Law Building is still one of the finest law buildings around, not only because of its ultramodern architecture and durable materials, but also because it was designed from the ground up to support the faculty-intensive style of legal education we emphasize. An Iowa education is premised on the belief that each student is a talented person with different academic strengths to nourish and individual learning needs to be met. The organization and spaces of the Boyd Law Building are managed to implement this educational philosophy.
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