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LEARN BY DOING. IN LESS TIME. WITH BETTER VALUE. SERVE ADVANCE RECONCILECREATE NEGOTIATE MEDIATE DEFEND DEVELOP PROMOTE ADVOCATE PROTECT REPRESENT LEAD TEACH THE LAW IS THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE. -THOMAS HOBBES, LEVIATHAN MEDIATE LEAD TEACH 2 ELON LAW Educating the Next Generation of Lawyer LEADERS Elon Law is the preeminent orientation to your work in our PreLaw Magazine school for engaged and residency program, you will have has ranked experiential learning in law with countless opportunities to apply a mission to be “a law school classroom lessons to real cases, Elon Law among with a difference.” with real clients, needing real help. the nation’s Our seven-trimester program And when you graduate, you attracts focused, ambitious will be ready. Top 10 for students who gain early access to the profession by graduating in Ready to practice. Practical Training. 2.5 years. From your first week of Ready to lead. THE BASICS (CLASS OF 2022) MEDIAN LSAT: 150 MEDIAN GPA: 3.3 ACCEPTANCE RATE: 47% SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS: 90%+ FEMALE/MALE: 60% / 40% STUDENTS OF COLOR: 30% STATES REPRESENTED: 23 COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES REPRESENTED: 109 OVERALL ELON LAW STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 9:1 3 ELON LAW with experiences unlike LEARNING BY DOING anywhere else. with experiences unlike LEARNING BY DOING anywhere else. The North Carolina COURTS WITHIN BLOCKS Business Court, housed OF ELON LAW inside Elon Law, offers U.S. District Court Professor Catherine U.S. Bankruptcy Court Dunham a working North Carolina Superior Court courtroom in which to North Carolina Business Court teach trial practice. (inside the law school) North Carolina District Court North Carolina Drug Treatment Court 6 ELON LAW ELON LAW’S 2.5-YEAR CURRICULUM: Late June JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER A Progression of Learning, INTRO TO LEGAL STUDIES, Lawyering & Leadership WRITING, LEADERSHIP TRIMESTER 1 SUMMER BREAK Optional courses/experiences TRIMESTER 4 SUMMER BREAK Optional courses/experiences TRIMESTER 7 7 ELON LAW Acclaimed FACULTY With Extensive Practice Experience As managing editor of Elon Law professors are accomplished lawyers committed to the Elon Law Review, innovative teaching, scholarship and mentoring. They include: DANIELLE PRONGAY worked with Associate The current chair of North Carolina’s General Statutes Commission Dean Enrique Armijo, a A 25-year representative to the Uniform Law Commission First Amendment scholar Advisors to the U.S. Department of State and the law review’s Four scholars elected to The American Law Institute co-advisor. She is now A past president of the Association of Legal Writing Directors an Honors Attorney Fellow with the National An affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School Security Agency. The founder of the American Bar Association’s Justice Center A scholar named one of the nation’s top law professors in the Harvard University Press book What the Best Law Teachers Do 100% of Elon Law faculty are members of the North Carolina Bar Association NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY Early June BREAK SPRING TRIMESTER 1 TRIMESTER 2 BREAK TRIMESTER 3 SPRING TRIMESTER 4 BREAK TRIMESTER 5 BREAK TRIMESTER 6 Students will benefit from a full-time, course-connected residency-in-practice during one of the second-year trimesters. TRIMESTER 7 GRADUATION* *Students may opt to continue their studies beyond December with dual-degree program courses, including courses to complete an MBA degree. 8 ELON LAW A LEARNING PLAN Tailored by You AYSHA JOHNSON Elon Law is the first and only law essential to the profession’s (center) sought a school to guarantee every student relevance and effectiveness residency-in-practice a full-time, course-connected in society. residency-in-practice. During What makes the Elon Law that would help grow her your second year of study, you knowledge of real estate Residency Program unique is that will spend 10 weeks in a law firm, students have a say in what they law. By working with Elon judicial chambers, corporation, choose to learn. You work with Law alumna Brenna M. government agency, or nonprofit your residency supervisor and a office under the supervision of Ragghianti (left), assistant professor to create a learning plan a practicing attorney or judge clerk of Superior Court, that will sharpen your proficiency who will help you understand in at least two legal skills and in and Guilford County the ethics, professionalism, an area of law practice. Clerk of Superior Court knowledge, skill and judgment Lisa Johnson-Tonkins, she broadened her EXAMPLES OF OUR RESIDENCY EXPERIENCES understanding of wills and U.S. Court of Appeals North Carolina Department of Justice estate planning. U.S. District Court Fox Rothschild LLP Supreme Court of North Carolina Carruthers & Roth, P.A. North Carolina Court of Appeals Atlantic Coast Conference North Carolina Business Court Washington Redskins (NFL) North Carolina Superior Court Children’s Law Center of North Carolina Southern Environmental Law Center Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Red Ventures National Labor Relations Board American Civil Liberties Union Legal Aid of North Carolina Universal Music Group 10 ELON LAW 11 ELON LAW STRATEGIC Partnerships Enhance Your Legal Training The U.S. Court of Appeals for JD/MBA IN PARTNERSHIP FELLOWS PROGRAMS the Fourth Circuit periodically WITH THE MARTHA & SPENCER Advocacy Fellows: Learn visits regional law schools and LOVE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS essential knowledge and practical, hands-on experience in October 2018, in addition AT ELON UNIVERSITY Better understand the market and skills necessary to become to hearing oral arguments, forces and organizational exceptional trial and/or judges shared with Elon Law principles that shape the legal appellate advocates. students their reflections on needs of your future corporate Business Fellows: Better the judiciary and the service clients. Students apply to the understand the needs of future MBA program after their first attorneys provide in faithfully corporate clients, ranging from year of law classes and finish entrepreneurial start-ups to large, representing clients. both degrees in as little as publicly-traded companies. three years. Leadership Fellows: Equip JD/MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL yourself with the knowledge to LAW & POLICY IN PARTNERSHIP address important public policy WITH VERMONT LAW SCHOOL and social challenges, and to The nation’s #1 school for lead in your communities environmental law has joined and beyond. with Elon Law to offer students Paul D. Coverdell Fellows: Elon Law has partnered with Stetson a program focused on law Up to two returned Peace Law to offer you opportunities for and policy in areas of global Corps volunteers receive summer study in countries such as Spain, England and The Netherlands. significance, including climate scholarships and top placements change, sustainable agriculture, The law school also offers its own in public interest law firms study abroad opportunities with energy policy and natural or organizations during their resource management. The JD/ a Prisoners’ Rights course visit to residency-in-practice. South Africa. MELP can be completed in as little as 2.5 years. PROFESSORS who know you by name. 13 ELON LAW JEN PODELCO discovered Elon Law while a business student at The Ohio State University. Once here, Jen joined the Elon Law Review. She led the Business Law Association and was a Business Fellow. She interned for The Carroll Companies, one of the state’s largest real estate development firms. Based on her excellence, Jen received a job offer in Florida from Ernst & Young. She credits her career success in part to Professor Andy Haile, who leads our Business Fellows program. I EXPECTED LAW SCHOOL TO BE VERY COMPETITIVE, BUT AT ELON LAW, EVERYBODY IS SUPPORTIVE, AND WE ALL WANT TO SEE EACH OTHER SUCCEED.” 14 ELON LAW CAREER MENTORS Committed to Your Success Elon Law’s Office of Career & Student Development assists you: Explore career opportunities Develop a vibrant professional network while learning the customs and culture of the legal profession Connect to the legal community at events where you learn about potential employers and different areas of legal practice In filings with the American Bar Association, Elon Law reported that 90% of graduates in the Class of December 2018 had secured full-time employment. Elon Law brings to campus distinguished speakers who share keys to success. Guests have included: Jay Bilas Jennifer Granholm Cory Booker Kay Bailey Hutchison Alan Dershowitz Loretta Lynch Ronan Farrow David McCullough Harold Ford Jr. Jeffrey Toobin Anthony Foxx Nina Totenberg David Gergen Scott Turow 15 ELON LAW The Office of Academic Success offers you group and individualized support beginning your first day at Elon Law. Throughout your studies, professional staff members led by ASSOCIATE DEAN WENDY SCOTT (pictured) are ready to enhance your learning experience with: An Introduction to Legal Studies course to acclimate you to the nuances of studying law Whole class, small group, and one-on-one instruction in critical skill areas necessary for success in law school, on the bar examination, and in practice Academic Teaching Fellows, a dedicated group of second- and third-year Elon Law students who help you better understand new concepts learned in class Workshops and simulations to prepare you for the bar exam begin as early as a year in advance of graduation A required course during your final trimester to review concepts and introduce study techniques in the