It's very important for us that our faculty were
practitioners first.
In my case, I was a trial lawyer for almost 15 years and
tried hundreds and hundreds of lawsuits.
I was a federal prosecutor in Miami
and I was a trial attorney for Department of Justice.
Our faculty brings so many different areas of law to the
table.
As a student, it gives you more of a grounded learning of
the law.
When professors share their own real world
experiences. It helps ground that knowledge and helps emphasize the importance of
it when you're actually out there working as a lawyer.
Most of our faculty are involved in student organizations
and running conferences.
We have faculty involved in the community. We have people
that serve on boards, we have people that do pro bono work. We have people that
mediate to not only enhance the community outreach, but their experiences in
the classroom as well.
And so we have a very healthy
externship program here. And I think that's because we've made so many
connections to the community.
The student faculty relationship at LMU is something that
I've found to be extremely special. Whether it deals with your personal life or
whether it deals with your law school life.
If your faculty is here in the building, their doors are
open, they'll drop anything and everything to help you and I have found that to
be probably one of the most incredible things about this place.
They invest in you and they help you, they promote you. They
want you to succeed.