™ UNI DALLAS COLLEGE of LAW BUILT for TEXAS-SIZED DREAMS 1 UNT DALLAS COLLEGE OF LAW, JOIN US AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL DIVERSITY IS It’s the dawn of a new era in downtown Dallas. IN OUR DNA UNT Dallas College of Law ranks among the most diverse The urban landscape is bustling. People from Offering the only evening program in North law schools in the country, with a student body that is 85% all walks of life come to Dallas to work and Texas, as well as a traditional full-time track, minority and reflects the changing demographics of Texas. play. The job market in Dallas is among the UNT Dallas College of Law is your pathway Our students come from a wide array of backgrounds— most vibrant and diverse economic engines in to a career in law. We have been awarded many work full-time, many are parents, and many are America. At the center of it all is the University provisional accreditation by the American Bar veterans who served our country. 2020 of North Texas Dallas College of Law. Association. That means all of our graduates UNT Dallas are eligible to take the Bar Examination in Our parent university is recognized as a minority-serving College of Law UNT Dallas College of Law is one of the most Texas, or elsewhere, before entering the No. 1 institution by the U.S. Department of Education. Entering Class affordable and diverse law schools in the job market in the country. country. Visit us in the heart of downtown Dallas, or check Our campus is We are motivated by our mission to promote us out online at https://lawschool.untdallas.edu. inclusive and justice and advance human potential professional. through the enterprise of legal education. UNT Dallas College of Law. .affordable, 7% OTHER UNT Dallas College of Law was created to innovative, and diverse. % help modernize legal education in our region. % 48 58% 15 HISPANIC Women WHITE We are committed to affordability and Join us at the center of it all. accessibility, serving a diverse population in Dallas-Fort Worth that previously had no 41% access to a public law school. Students of color We partnered with the City of Dallas to revitalize the Main Street area of downtown. FFeleciaelecia EppEppss 17% Our new home, the historic Old City Hall, has 30% Hold advanced been transformed and reborn as the UNT AFRICAN degrees Dallas Law Center. Felecia Epps AMERICAN Median Age 28 Dean and Professor of Law, Age range 21-62 UNT Dallas College of Law UNT DALLAS STUDENT BODY 4% 85% Minority Military FLEXIBILITY TO FIT YOUR LIFESTYLE Not only does UNT Dallas College of Law offer a full-time track, we also offer the only night/evening track in Dallas-Fort Worth for students that work full-time during the day. 2 3 UNT DALLAS Six Reasons To Join Us: COLLEGE OF LAW WE OFFER AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO LEGAL EDUCATION You have a unique opportunity to be a part of something new at UNT Dallas College of Law. Our law school, which Because sound legal judgment is cultivated by experience, we combine traditional classroom admitted its first students in 2014, is not bound by the restraints education with experiential education that emphasizes learning by doing. We utilize the best of traditional legal education. instructional practices by offering engaged, experiential, and collaborative learning in addition to providing ongoing assessments of our students. UNT Dallas College of Law is initiating change. Our curriculum stretches far beyond traditional classroom learning. We Most of our upper level courses include a “lab” component that reinforces the subject matter while developing practical competencies. Our students actively participate in practice settings provide our students with hands-on experiences and while receiving mentoring and guidance. meaningful opportunities to engage with members of the community, lawyers, and legal scholars. WE FOCUS ON REAL-WORLD PRACTICE ABILITIES Our mission at UNT Dallas College of Law is to promote Our students not only learn legal theory but also practical skills: how to negotiate, how to prepare justice and advance human potential through the enterprise an agreement, and how to manage a practice. In short, they learn skills that relate to practicing of legal education. real law in the real world. Our students also move purposefully towards readiness to pass the bar exam upon graduation. OUR MISSION HAS FIVE GOALS: WE GIVE YOU THE CONVENIENCE AND CONNECTIONS OF DALLAS Our presence in downtown Dallas places us close to the courts, to the bar associations, and to ACCESS outstanding lawyers. As a professional school, UNT Dallas College of Law and our students will gain by proximity to experienced members of the profession, from externships, and from other Expand access to legal education for those who are opportunities that will enrich the classroom experience. capable of becoming legal professionals but have lacked realistic access to legal education. WE MAKE A LEGAL EDUCATION AVAILABLE TO MORE STUDENTS PREPARATION We believe a community’s lawyers should be as diverse as the communities they serve. We are committed to serving a wide range of students who have the potential to be successful lawyers— Provide insights from legal educators as well as not just those who score the highest on standard admission tests. legal practitioners. WE OFFER A GREAT VALUE IN LEGAL EDUCATION VALUE UNT Dallas College of Law is affordable. Current tuition and fees are among the lowest in Texas. We are a public law school, committed to offering a quality legal education at an extremely Create opportunity for students by keeping competitive cost. As a new school, we are without legacy costs. By controlling expenses, we will tuition and debt low while consistently delivering keep tuition at a level that increases options for our graduates, who will be able to then follow their an excellent legal education. individual career paths unencumbered by unreasonable debt. INNOVATION YOU WILL BE PART OF A NEW AND EXCITING PROGRAM Lead in the advancement of best legal education We are located in a newly-renovated, historic building equipped with outstanding technology, practices and of the evolving business of practicing law. and collaborative spaces. Our curriculum is not only focused on learning theory but also lawyering skills such as mediation, drafting, negotiation, and oral argument. Our award-winning Legal Writing curriculum prepares students for success in practice by continuously improving COMMUNITY techniques throughout their coursework. Partner with legal professionals in the downtown area and the Dallas-Fort Worth community. 4 5 OUR MODERN APPROACH TO LEGAL EDUCATION Our law program is designed to help students realize the following abilities: Understand the privilege and responsibility of being a lawyer Develop practice-related competencies and a professional identity Open doors and expand opportunities within the legal profession Our curriculum is different from other law schools. BAR EXAM PREP FACULTY We utilize an integrated focus on experiential learning. We prepare students to practice law upon At the UNT Dallas College of Law, all upper-level graduation by weaving in writing skills through students take two-semester sequences of capstone courses, offering performance-based continuous courses that focus on bar exam readiness. Students feedback, and ensuring participation in a clinic take the courses during their final year of law school, or externship. and each is a 3-hour graded course. The capstone Our faculty is special. We are committed to feedback, accessibility, rubrics, and courses build on students’ doctrinal, analytical, and teaching innovation. Our faculty gets involved in students’ success. Faculty members Experiential learning helps students carve out skills foundations. The courses consolidate doctrinal teach in day and evening sections and participate in student organization activities. professional lanes for themselves. Our education understanding and strengthen skills with the aim of Our adjunct faculty are experienced judges and lawyers who work in the Dallas- curriculum makes it easier to discover which successfully preparing students to take the bar exam. Ft. Worth Metroplex. segments of law speak to students in particular, what excites or moves them about practicing a While studying for the bar exam, we hope every The Faculty at UNT Dallas College of Law believes in a sound curriculum design and specific discipline, and which work setting is the student learns and appreciates that it is not the final best teaching practices. We bring extensive and top-notch practice experience into most fitting for their personalities and career goals. test of their law school career, but rather the the classroom. We are fixtures in the Dallas legal community. We believe our students beginning of a career of lifelong learning. deserve the best of us and it is our promise to deliver. In many of our classes, students gain experiential learning by encountering what lawyers do in the That tuition includes the cost of a bar review course workplace in a hands-on manner. This is especially so students do not have to incur the cost of one true in legal research classes. Half the classes after law school. are breakout sessions in which students may work collaboratively to dig into legal information EARNING YOUR J.D. DEGREE resources and discover the details of truth that guides them to the most likely answer for their The Juris Doctor (J.D.) program at UNT Dallas clients’ problems. requires 90 hours for students to graduate. Full-time students typically earn their J.D. in three The legal community extends beyond law school— years. Our Part-time program, with convenient to judges, practicing for the bar exam and other evening courses for working students, typically takes legal organizations. From classrooms to courtrooms four years to complete.