Southern California Law Review

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well tomorrow morning alarm will go off at 4 and get up and do some reading, to prep. 7 o'clock start waking up kids after that get them out at eight o'clock come back do a little more prepping then head over to school. My name's Jason Smith, I'm a first year law student at the University of La Verne College of law. When I'm on my way here I usually am just thinking about you know, what--what's ahead in the day and I'm just running different thoughts through my head of different laws and how I would write it. For me when I look at the support that they provide, I've never seen a group of people that were so willing to help you succeed even if you get to the point of exhaustion they find a way to say you know what, you can do this you just got to get down to basics and, you know you'll make it they're not gonna let you quit. My name is emeline Garcia and I'm currently in my second year at the College of Law I actually started as a biochemistry major I always thought that I was gonna be a doctor. I didn't really like it I didn't have a passion for it. the third year the light turned on and I realized that I wanted to go to law school. then I got a job in a law firm and realized that that's exactly what I wanted to do the faculty here they're always open been to helping the students. I have no problems contacting my professors and setting up appointments with them. they'll take as much time as you need. they're always really patient with their students so that's something that I really appreciate my name is Kevin Marshall and I am a professor of law and economics. I teach contracts, sales, law and economics antitrust law, laws of competition. I ended up out here after journeying through law school, by way of Atlanta, Georgia - Emory University. which took me to Dallas Texas where I practiced law and developed as a profession for approximately twenty years if you are a student who were told by other schools you can't do this or by anybody, I would ask you what do you want to achieve in life is this - practicing law - being a lawyer - something you want to do and if you're passionate about that and you're willing to prepare yourself and apply yourself and work hard and run what I say is the fastest marathon in your life for three years, you need to come to the university of La Verne my name is Jendayi Saada. I'm the Assistant Dean for the Center for Academic and Bar Readiness. and basically when I do is with my team we help students get through law school. many schools may have a component of academic support and bar prep. ours is unique in that we marry the skills to the doctrine in the first year and we also do that to a large extent in the second year there's such a nice continuum from orientation all the way through graduation. Have a whole department of people here in the Center for Academic and Bar Readiness, so they have all the resources that they need and that there's no reason that they can't be successful. we've also seen some success in our bar pass rates in fact it was the largest increase of any law school in the state of California last july and I think that we're gonna continue to see higher and higher bar pass rates. We want a hundred percent of our students to pass the first time. my name is Stephanie Stovall my job title at La Verne is Director of Admissions and Financial Aid. what I really do is I try to find the right people to join our community and then support them through the process. we serve the attorneys who hire our graduates, we serve the judges who have their retreats here we serve the families of the people in the community who come use our legal clinics you're becoming a part of that greater community and you have to want that in your legal education you have to want a very strong tie to the community lots of mindsets lots of ways of being, lots of viewpoints you bring the right group together and it can be cooperative they extend their learning so much more so really just trying to pick the right people to come do that my name is Jake Frye I'm originally from Seattle area. You know when I'm able to get out to the mountains kinda frees my mind from all the chaos, break free from all that clutter out of all the other schools I had toured La Verne stuck out because the value of the education I could get for the amount of tuition I paid La Verne is switching to what is called the True Tuition model our tuition is going to be moved from forty thousand dollars a year for a full-time student down to twenty five thousand dollars a year. Law schools are incredibly expensive with La Verne lowering its prices but maintaining the same caliber of education it has become an incredible deal. Legal market's tough and having less debt to pay, ah should be at the forefront of very student's mind. My name is Gilbert Holmes I'm the Dean of the College of Law. I came here because I saw an opportunity to create with a team of people a new model for legal education that was really the fundamental reason why I came. I've been in legal education for 25 years I've been practicing attorney for over forty years and I've always thought that legal education did not have it right. That there were some essential components missing. we have the most dynamic curriculum, we have the greatest integration of experiential learning within the curriculum, we have the greatest integration of academic and bar readiness and we're the most affordable law school in the country, not just California we could not have done the things we've accomplished without the support of the University and the faculty and staff of the College of Law we're a school that facilitates our students achieving their dreams, and whatever your dream is, we want to facilitate that what we do in the class room matters there's just something that goes on in that classroom that everybody kinda feeds off of we have a lotta great stories here with our students. we are really open to bringing in people from many diverse backgrounds and giving them an opportunity to live their dream of becoming a lawyer meeting the student where they're at, asking them where they want to go not where you want them to go but where do they want to go and then helping them build that bridge and get there giving them the access, giving them the tools. La Verne students are people who want to make a difference in their community people who recognize that they have a calling who have a dream