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Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA [By Heather Jung] In its 87-year history, Loyola Law School (LLS) has graduated some of the most well-known and respected attorneys of the 20 th and 21 st centuries: Gloria Allred (1974), Johnnie Cochran (1962), Mark Geragos (1982), and Robert Shapiro (1969), to name a few. Other famous LLS alumni include Diane Patrick (wife of Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and partner at Ropes & Gray, LLP), Joseph Battaglia (radio talk-show host), and Nick Pacheco (former member of the Los Angeles City Council).
Established in 1920, LLS was granted its ABA
According to the school’s career services
rights can study at the University for Peace.
accreditation in 1937 and was awarded a
office website, 375 of LLS’s 391 class of
Through the program in Bologna, Italy,
chapter of the Order of the Coif in 1990. While
2005 graduates reported employment. Of
students can take classes on comparative
it is not affiliated with Loyola University in
those 375, 61.1% went into private practice,
business organization, comparative torts,
Chicago or Loyola University in New Orleans,
20% went into business and industry, 11.3%
international arbitration, and international
the private Jesuit institution is named after St.
went into government, 5.1% went into
sales. This program is also co-sponsored
Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order of
public interest, 0.5% entered academia,
by Brooklyn Law School. Another program
Catholicism.
and 1.6% did not specify their whereabouts.
offered in Bologna is the International LL.M.
Average salaries ranged from $54,500 to
Program. Through their studies at the Alma
$125,000 per year.
Mater Studiorum-Universitá di Bologna,
LLS consistently ranks among the top law
students learn about a variety of international
institutions on all three of the most respected lists of law school rankings: the U.S. News
In addition to the traditional J.D., other
& World Report rankings, The Princeton Review rankings, and the Cooley rankings. Specific programs at LLS, such as the taxation program and the trial advocacy program, are also nationally recognized. Loyola is ranked fifth on The Princeton Review’s list of schools with the “Best Overall Academic Experience.”
academic options for students at LLS include
and comparative law topics.
a J.D./M.B.A. joint degree and an LL.M. in
The LLS campus was designed by the famous
Taxation. LLS is also proud to offer more
architect Frank Gehry, who also designed the
than 15 clinics and programs for students
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Walt
wishing to study specific aspects of the legal
Disney Concert Hall. For LLS, Gehry designed
arena. Available clinics and programs include
a series of modern buildings, at the heart
the Disability Rights Legal Center, the Sports
of which sits a central plaza. The campus
Law Institute, the Journalist Law School, the
is located in the Pico-Union district of Los
LLS was the first ABA-approved law school
Entertainment Law Practicum, and the Cancer
Angeles.
in California and among the first in the
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country to require students to perform pro bono work prior to graduating. Each year,
LLS also offers several study-abroad
students devote more than 40,000 hours
options for students with a taste for foreign
Loyola Law School
of work to nonprofit organizations. Each
studies. Co-sponsored by Brooklyn Law
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student is required to perform 40 hours of
School, the Summer in Beijing (China)
uncompensated pro bono work relating to
Program allows students to take courses
Los Angeles, CA
law. Among the programs and organizations
on international bankruptcy and participate
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approved by LLS are California Lawyers for
in an international trade workshop. The
the Arts, the ACLU’s Gay and Lesbian Rights
second program available is the Summer in
The Life of St. Ignatius Loyola
Chapter, the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, the
Ciudad Colon (Costa Rica) Program. In this
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National Immigration Law Center, and the
program, students interested in international
Western Law Center for Disability Rights.
environmental law and international human
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