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Florida State University’s highly accomplished and accessible law faculty delivers a program
that has an interdisciplinary orientation designed to produce well-rounded and effective lawyers.
Brittany Rhodaback ('11), an attorney for the Public Defender's Office in Orlando, and Professor Franita Tolson, an expert in constitutional law and voting rights |
National Recognition U.S. News & World Report (2012) ranks Florida State one of the nation’s top 51 law schools and ranks the environmental law program 8th best in the nation and its tax law program 23rd best (tied with Duke). Leiter’s Law School Rankings (2010) rates the law school faculty the nation’s 23rd best in terms of per capita scholarly impact. Hispanic Business magazine (2011) ranks Florida State the nation’s 3rd best law school for Hispanic students. PreLaw magazine has ranked Florida State one of the nation’s top 10 “Best Value” law schools for three years in a row. Based on a survey of 18,000 law students, Princeton Review has rated Florida State’s faculty the nation’s 10th best in terms of accessibility and 11th best in terms of quality of teaching. |
Student Selectivity The College of Law receives 13 applications for every seat in the entering class. The 2011 entering class has a median LSAT of 162 and a median GPA of 3.47. Current students represent 32 states, 15 countries and 191 colleges and universities.
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Student Successes For eight of the last 13 administrations of the Florida Bar Examination, our bar passage rate was either first or second among Florida’s 11 law schools. Within nine months of graduation, 90.7% of Class of 2011 graduates were employed, with an additional 3.2% pursuing further graduate studies. Since 2010, the Moot Court Team has won first place in nine national competitions and in one international competition. For two consecutive years, the Mock Trial Team has won first place in the Florida Justice Association’s E. Earle Zehmer Mock Trial Competition. In 2006, 2011 and 2012, the Black Law Students Association was named National Chapter of the Year by the National Black Law Students Association. Twice in the past four years, the Student Bar Association has been selected “SBA of the Year” by the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association. In 2010, the SBA received the Public Interest National Achievement Award from the Law Student Division. |
Professional Skills Training The College of Law completed its expansion into the 50,000-square-foot Advocacy Center addition in January 2012. The center includes five courtrooms and is the finest advocacy training facility in the nation. The United States Supreme Court repeatedly cited a report by the Public Interest Law Center in a 2010 landmark decision on juvenile sentencing. The College of Law’s extensive clinical externship program has been referred to as a model for the nation. It includes judicial, criminal, civil, legal services, appellate and international placements. Students and faculty at the law and medical schools work together through the Medical-Legal Partnership — a new clinic within the Public Interest Law Center. |
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