10 Reasons to Choose Lewis & Clark Law
What is learning without hands-on, practical experience? All of our students pursue some combination of an externship, internship, paid clerkship, legal clinic position, pro bono work, law review, or moot court experience. We won’t let you leave without it.
We strive to make law school attainable for you. Our tuition is below the median of private law schools, and nearly all of our entering students in the past two years have received some sort of tuition relief in the form of scholarships or grants. Our loan repayment assistance and summer stipend programs for public-interest minded students help them to pay off or avoid student debt.
Not to mention, all of our merit scholarships are free of academic terms for renewal, meaning you won’t need to maintain a certain rank and GPA for your scholarship to renew each year.
Our alumni practice everywhere from New York City to Washington, D.C., from Alaska to Hawai‘i, from Florida to California, and points in between. They can also be found in more than 44 other countries around the world. Our dedicated Career Services team will help you narrow down what you want to do and where through personal attention starting your 1L year.
As soon as you begin school, we provide you with a personal Mentor Network based on your individual background and legal interests—a peer student mentor, a faculty mentor, a career service advisor, and an alumni mentor.
Your peer mentor can offer wisdom from having recently navigated 1L year, and your faculty mentor can provide academic guidance and help you plan for your career along with your career service advisor. Your alumni mentor will be a practicing attorney in the local legal community whose experience aligns with your short- or long-term goals.
Excellent teaching is a priority, and our students rave about their professors. Faculty are readily available for questions and conversation, mentoring, and advice on courses and careers. Personal and professional connections last long after law school graduation.
The atmosphere at L&C is friendly and cooperative. Students regard one another as colleagues and partners and as part of a lifelong network, not as competitors.
Most students come from outside the Pacific Northwest, and around 25 percent each year are students of color or from other nations. They include business executives, biologists, policy makers, musicians, community activists, teachers, and health care professionals to name a few. While some are just out of college, others are embarking on a major career change. Check out our profile to learn more.
We offer the option of part-time and full-time programs with day and evening courses.
After your first-year courses, you can easily switch programs. This means you can graduate in as little as two-and-a-half years or stretch things out to more than the traditional three.
Even lawyers practicing exclusively in the United States encounter international matters in the course of their work today. That’s why we offer a robust international law curriculum on campus, study abroad programs, and the ability to extern anywhere in the world. Students have gone to China, India, Australia, Kenya, Ghana, Costa Rica, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Germany in recent years.
While rankings aren’t everything, it’s nice to be honored for your work. Lewis & Clark has been nationally recognized for its offerings in several academic programs, and as a “best value” law school.
Our legal writing, animal law, intellectual property, public interest law, environmental and natural resources law, and part-time programs have all received national or international accolades. And our moot court teams shine in competition.
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Law School Admissions
Lewis & Clark Law School
10101 S. Terwilliger Boulevard MSC 51
Portland OR 97219