the Law School at the University of Alabama

Originally named the Hugh F. Culbertson School of Law,[4] the University of Alabama School of Law is located in Tuscaloos The Junior Culverhouse Alabama" target="_blank">Tuscaloosa, Alabama is home to Alabama's only public law school (University of Alabama School of Law[5][6]), which boasts a national ranking in the top tier of law schools[7]. There are a total of five law schools in the state, and only three of them hold ABA accreditation, making this one of the three that are the best options. Nine months after graduation, 84% of Alabama's Class of 2017 had secured full-time, long-term jobs that required a Juris Doctorate, per the state's official 2017 ABA disclosures. A further 8 Only 4% of the 2017 graduating class found jobs that favored their Juris Doctorate. [8]

About 383 Juris Doctor candidates spent the 2018-2019 academic year at Alabama Law. The class of 2021 comes from 62 different undergraduate schools across 25 different states, and the student-to-faculty ratio is 6 to 1. 3 to 1 [9]

Academics [ edit ]

The Juris Doctor (JD) program at the University of Alabama School of Law is among the nation's D ) in addition to Master of Laws (LL.M." target="_blank">LL.M." target="_blank">LL.M.) degrees in International Law, Tax Law, and Business Law. A combined Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program can be completed in four years through a partnership with the Manderson Graduate School of Business. Several graduate degrees are available to students through dual enrollment programs at M A or Ph D with a Master's Degree in Political Science P A , Ph D Finance, or LL M regarding Taxes You can also earn a certificate in International and Comparative Law, Governmental Affairs, or Public Interest Law.

Over time, admission requirements have become more stringent. The median LSAT score for the incoming class of 2021 is 164, and the median undergraduate GPA is 3. 88 In terms of these indicators, the median is 165 and the 25th and 75th percentiles are 3, respectively. 95, 157, 3, etc. As a pair, they make up a total of 42. [9]

Legal aid societies [ edit ]

According to Alabama statute, any student who shows interest must be given the chance to attend a law clinic at least once before they graduate. It's a promise made by only a handful of law schools across the country. [10]

• Youth with disabilities in Alabama's juvenile justice system are supported by the Children's Rights Clinic's collaboration with the state's Disabilities Advocacy Program. [11]
• As the state's first and longest running legal aid program, the Civil Law Clinic at the University of Alabama is committed to serving the civil legal needs of its student body and surrounding community at no cost. Over 200 cases per year are dealt with by students in the civil clinic. [12]
• In both bench and jury trials, the Criminal Defense Clinic defends low-income defendants charged with misdemeanors and felonies. [13]
• Tuscaloosa County, Alabama's Domestic Violence Clinic provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence. Comprehensive legal services are provided by clinic students, who also engage in community outreach and education. [14]
• Small businesses, startups, and nonprofits can get free transactional legal services from the Entrepreneur & Nonprofit Clinic. In addition to drafting and negotiating agreements, the suite of services also includes assistance with registering with relevant authorities. [15]
• Family disputes can be settled more quickly and with less emotional trauma through the Mediation Law Clinic's alternative to the adversarial litigation process. [16]

Publications [ edit ]

As of 2007, Alabama Law Review (ALR) was ranked #36 by Jarvis & Coleman "on the basis of the prominence of their lead article authors." This is a staggering jump of 63 places from where we were ten years ago in the rankings, as shown by [17]. According to ExpressO, UC Berkeley's manuscript submission service, the ALR was the tenth most popular journal in terms of "number of manuscripts received" in 2015-2016. According to Washington and Lee's methodology, ALR received 46th place in 2015 for total citations and total score. [19] These represent jumps of 10 and 26 places, respectively, over the previous 5 years.

Journal experience is a requirement for about 40% of graduating students. The percentage is above the national average but lower than many of Alabama's comparable schools.

Employment [ edit ]

Official 2017 ABA-required disclosures from the state of Alabama reveal that 83 Only 2% of 2016 graduates found full-time, long-term jobs that did not require bar passage within nine months of graduation. 2017's Law School Transparency underemployment score for the state of Alabama was 7. 9 months after receiving their diplomas, 6 percent of the Class of 2017 were either unemployed, enrolled in graduate school, or working in a job that did not require a four-year commitment or at least a bachelor's degree. [24]

Costs [ edit ]

The total cost of attending the University of Alabama School of Law for the 2018-2019 academic year is $23,920 for in-state students and $42,180 for out-of-state students. Discounts were given to 69.2% of students during the 2017-2018 school year, while 30% did not. Only 8% of buyers actually forked over the total asking price. According to Law School Transparency, the full three-year cost of attendance, when financed by debt, is $157,785 for residents and $231,042 for nonresidents. [26]

Famous alums [ edit ]

• U.S. Senator and Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black (1937-1971[27]).
• Although author Harper Lee spent many years there, she never graduated. (1930–2016)[28]
• A representative from Alabama (1915–1933), Edward B. Almon ([29]).
• Senator James B. Allen of Alabama (1969-1978)[30].
• Mel Allen, the original host of This Week in Baseball and the man known as the "Voice of the New York Yankees,"[31]
• John W. Abercrombie was the president of the University of Alabama from 1902 to 1911 and a member of Congress from Alabama (1913 to 1917)[32].
• Spencer Bachus, representative of Alabama's 6th congressional district (1993-present)[33].
• Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Beatty (1976-1989).
• U.S. Supreme Court clerk and 1978 graduate Charles J. Cooper worked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. S In Washington, D.C., where he worked at the Supreme Court and established the law firm Cooper & Kirk, C
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit Judge Emmett Ripley Cox,[34]
• Miss Alabama 2003: Catherine Crosby
• Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder Morris Dees[35].
• Representative Paul DeMarco (R-Alabama)[a href="MY_REDIRECT_PREFIXhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed/span>]
• Fuller, Mark Everett (J D U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama from 1985 until his forced resignation in 2015[36].
• A href="MY_REDIRECT_PREFIXhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">span>citation needed/span> Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity.
• The journalist, political consultant, and writer Victor Gold[37]
• Alabama's 27th chief justice, Perry O. Hooper, Sr. [38]
• Justice Frank Minis Johnson of the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals[39].
• Alabama's first female attorney was Maud McLure Kelly[40].
• [a href="MY_REDIRECT_PREFIXhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">span>citation needed/span>] Claude R. Kirk, Jr., (Class of 1949), former governor of Florida.
• Bert Nettles (Class of 1960), lawyer in Birmingham, and Republican state representative from Mobile in the Alabama House of Representatives (1969–1974)[41].
• Ala.'s perennial gubernatorial hopeful Shorty Price
• Civil rights attorney and former Alabama attorney general and lieutenant governor Bill Baxley[42].
• Former Senator and current U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions S Alabama's senator (1997-2017) [43]
• Strong S. Shealy was Alabama's starting quarterback during their 1978 and 1979 national championship seasons. [44]
• The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (Robert Smith Vance)[45].
• The Honorable Hugo Black of the United States Supreme Court had David Vann, a member of the Class of 1951, as his law clerk. S Alabama's highest court and the mayor of Birmingham
• Former Alabama governor and political figure George Wallace[46].
• Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Roy Moore won the state's special election on December 12, 2017.
• Former United States District Court judge Junius Foy Guin, Jr. (1947) for the Northern District of Alabama.
• Public defender and reality show hopeful Nick Wilson[48]

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