Established 1899 Location Chicago, Illinois, US Phone +1 312-427-2737 Faculty 48 | School type Private Website www.jmls.edu Founded 1899 Dean John E. Corkery | |
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Enrollment 1,907 (1,546 full-Time, 361 part-Time) numbers are approximate USNWR ranking RNP
bar pass rate = 73% Address 315 S Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604, USA Hours Open today · 10AM–3PMSunday10AM–3PMMonday8AM–7PMTuesday8AM–7PMWednesday8AM–7PMThursday8AM–7PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturday10AM–3PM Notable alumni Timothy C Evans, William M Daley, Howard Thomas Markey, Edith S Sampson, Evelyn Sanguinetti Similar Chicago‑Kent College of Law, DePaul University College o, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University Pritzker S, DePaul University Profiles | ||
The John Marshall Law School is a law school in Chicago, Illinois, that was founded in 1899 and accredited by the American Bar Association in 1951. The school was named for the influential nineteenth-century U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall.
Contents
- Post graduation Employment and Background
- Costs
- Curriculum
- Clinics externships and special programs
- Global Legal Skills Conference Series
- Interscholastic Competitions
- Library
- Student activities
- Alumni
- Faculty
- References
The John Marshall Law School offers programs for both part-time and full-time students, with both day and night classes available, and offers January enrollment—choices most law schools no longer offer.
John Marshall is located in Chicago's central financial and legal district, most commonly known as The Loop. It is across the street from the Dirksen Federal Building, which houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and about four blocks from the Daley Center, which houses the Cook County Courts. It is also next door to the Chicago Bar Association.
The fall 2015 entering class had a median GPA of 3.12 and a median LSAT of 147.
Post-graduation Employment and Background
According to John Marshall's official 2015 ABA-required disclosures, 56.6% of the Class of 2014 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation. John Marshall's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 22.7%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2014 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.
According to the law professor blog, The Faculty Lounge, based on 2014 data submitted by law schools to the American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, 48.9% of graduates obtained full-time, long term positions requiring bar admission (i.e., jobs as lawyers), ten months after graduation, ranking 149 out of 197 law schools.
The bar passage rate for the July 2015 bar exam was 73%. Correlating statistics for 2015 John Marshall Law School graduates employed within nine months of graduation is still pending.
Costs
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at John Marshall for the 2015-2016 academic year is $72,594. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $274,430, based on data from the 2013-2014 school year.
Curriculum
John Marshall has day and evening divisions, with identical instruction, course content, and scholastic requirements. Lawyering Skills courses, which focus on writing, research, and oral argument, are an integral part of the core curriculum. These courses are taught in small groups, to maximize the individual attention given to each student. A student may earn a J.D. certificate in a certain area of the law or focus more emphatically and earn a joint degree (J.D./LL.M.).
The law school also offers Master of Laws (LL.M.) and Master of Jurisprudence (M.J.) programs for practicing attorneys and non-attorney professionals and other individual students.
The John Marshall Law School offers eight Master of Laws (LL.M.) programs for attorneys seeking specialized education in legal issues and for current J.D. students who would like the maximum concentration in particular areas of the law. As the largest graduate law school in the Midwest, John Marshall offers a comprehensive curriculum in the following areas: Employee Benefits Law, Estate Planning, Information Technology and Privacy Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Business and Trade Law, Real Estate Law, Tax Law, and U.S. Legal Studies.
John Marshall's U.S. Legal Studies program is available only for lawyers and law students from other countries, and students enrolled in the program can receive a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree.
Clinics, externships, and special programs
Practical legal experience plays a vital role in education at The John Marshall Law School. Students are required to earn three experiential learning credits - working in a clinic, externship, or a combination of both - in order to graduate. The law school offers students practical opportunities through 9 clinics and more than 100 externships. Clinics include the Business Enterprise Law Clinic, Conflict Resolution Institute & Clinic, Domestic Violence Clinic, Fair Housing Legal Support Center & Clinic, International Human Rights Clinic, USPTO-certified IP Patent Clinic, USPTO-certified IP Trademark Clinic, Pro Bono Program & Clinic, and the Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic. Externship opportunities include judicial, governmental, and non-profit placements.
Global Legal Skills Conference Series
The Global Legal Skills Conference Series was founded in 2005 at The John Marshall Law School as a forum for professors who teach Legal English and international legal skills to exchange information on teaching techniques and materials. The conference built upon the law school's strengths in legal writing education, trial advocacy, and international legal education, creating a specialized conference connecting legal writing professionals and other professors who had an interest in teaching international students and lawyers who spoke English as a second language. Since its inception, the Global Legal Skills Conference has been held four times in Chicago, once in Washington, D.C., twice in Mexico, twice in Costa Rica, and twice in Italy. The conference now also includes presentations of GLS Awards for individual achievement, institutional vision, and outstanding publications.
Interscholastic Competitions
In 2007, the school’s Advocacy and Dispute Resolution Team of Daniel Padernacht and Curtis Vosti placed Second in the Nation in the American Bar Association National Negotiation Competition. This competition involved 220 teams from law schools around the country. The John Marshall team of Padernacht and Vosti then went on to represent the United States in the 2007 International Negotiation Competition for Law Students in Singapore where they placed Sixth in the World. The team was coached by Dawn Bode, Kenneth Kandaras and Susann Maclachlan.
In 2007, in the ABA Dispute Resolution Mediation and the CBA Mediation competitions, John Marshall placed second and fourth.
In 2007, The John Marshall Moot Court teams won Second Place Brief at the Illinois Appellate Lawyers Competition, First Place in the Frederick Douglass (Black Law Student Association) Competition Nationals, Second Place in the Hispanic National Bar Association Competition, Second Place (Petitioner's Brief) at the John J. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Competition, and competed in the Semifinals of the Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition (hosted by NAPABA), winning Third Best Brief in the nation against eighty teams.
In 2008, The John Marshall Moot Court program took first place in the Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court competition. The school also took second place at the Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition and at the 21st Annual August A. Rendigs, Jr. National Products Liability Moot Court Competition.
Library
The Louis L. Biro Law Library occupies the 6th - 10th floors of the law school's State Street building. A team of over 20 professional librarians and staff members work to serve the students during the 96 hours/week that the library is open. The library holds over 410,000 volumes and microform equivalents and provides on-campus and remote access to over 4,000 titles via their specialty electronic databases. It is continually adding more online subscriptions to its growing collection of electronic resources, including Lexis, Westlaw, CALI Lessons, BNA Premier, IICLE SmartBooks, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online, Justis International Law Reports, Courtroom View Network, which contains audio versions of law school casebooks and streaming trial videos, and Mango languages, an easy to follow system for learning over 20 different languages.
Students have wireless access throughout the law school and the library offers seating for 750, including twelve group study rooms. In addition to supporting the research & instructional needs of the students, faculty & staff of the law school, the library is also open to law school alumni and members of the Chicago Bar Association, whose headquarters building is next door.
Student activities
There are five honors programs: The John Marshall Law Review, The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law ("RIPL"), the Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law, the Moot Court Honors Program, and the Trial Advocacy and Dispute Resolution Honors Program. John Marshall sends teams to more than 30 moot court and mock trial competitions annually.
The student community at The John Marshall Law School includes more than 50 student organizations engaging in social awareness, community service, legal discussions, and social activities.