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nYLS aLIGnS wITh The evoLvInG LeGaL MarkeTPLace


A critical component of our Strategic Plan is to adapt our course offerings and educational delivery 
models to meet a structurally changed legal marketplace while providing students a irm foundation for 
a lifetime of legal practice. the chart below relects how the law School has begun to align its courses 

and adapt its programs and services to meet evolving needs. By understanding the interrelated and 
interdependent nature of the three areas of the law depicted below, students will be able to develop 
knowledge and experience needed today to compete for a broad array of legal and law-related careers 

tomorrow.



antitrust • Banking • Bankruptcy • contracting/ 
Procurement • corporatetransactions • estate 
Planning • Finance • immigration • insurance
• intellectual Property/Patent • international 
BUSIneSS and Business • labor/employment • nonproits/ngos 
fInancIaL • real estate • Securities/iPos • tax
ServIceS

contracting/Procurement • copyright
• Finance • health care • high-tech law • 
immigration • intellectual Property/Patent
• international Business • media/entertainment 
• nonproits/ngos • real estate

• Securities/iPos • tax
InTeLLecTUaL 
GovernMenT ProPerTY, MedIa, 
administrative law • antitrust • civil rights • and TechnoLoGY, 
contracting/Procurement • criminal Prosecution/ PUBLIc and aPPLIed 
defense • disability law • ethics/anti-corruption • ScIenceS
Family law • Finance • immigration • intellectual InTereST
Property/Patent • international human rights • 

labor/employment • nonproits/ngos • real 
estate • State and local government law • tax









J.d. reqUIred
J.d. advanTaGe
• advice/counsel
• litigation
• Business administration • investment management 

• compliance
• mediation/arbitration • compliance
• Journalism
• general Practice
• Solo Practice
• contract administration • legal technology
• legislation/regulation
• transactions/contracts
• e-discovery/disclosure • nonproit management
• Finance
• Project management 
• entrepreneurism • Public administration 
• human resources
• risk management
























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