How will you make a difference?
FROM THE DEAN I invite you to learn what McGeorge has to offer. I joined McGeorge as dean because I discovered a community that values learning, embraces diversity, and welcomes innovation. My McGeorge colleagues delight in helping students achieve their goals, actively seek to be transformative teachers, and give generously of themselves as mentors. McGeorge offers an exciting array of experiential learning opportunities that allow students to address real world, serious problems. Discover in these pages what a 21st century, student-centered, communityengaged legal education can be.
— Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz National Jurist Magazine’s 9th Most Influential Person in Legal Education
#IChoseMcGeorge “I took the Elder and Health Law Clinic, winning a Social Security disability case. I served on the law review as chief technical editor. I completed the advocacy certificate of concentration. I competed on a Moot Court team, and now I coach teams. McGeorge gave me the technical and practical skills to practice law when I graduated.” — Corrie Manning ’11, Senior Deputy General Counsel at League of California Cities
“I chose McGeorge because of the Legislative and Public Policy Clinic. I took a lobbying and politics class. I took a California lawmaking class. These classes build up specific knowledge about things that only people working in the field might know. It gets you a step ahead of the competition.” — Brandon Chaidez ’18 McGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW
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scholars used in 185/205 ABA-approved law schools
13,000+ ALUMNI PRACTICING IN ALL 50 STATES & 45 COUNTRIES
alumni serving as judges
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Member, Order of the Coif
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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is the longest-serving McGeorge faculty member
Visit McGeorge’s tree-filled, centrally located campus, enjoy our beautiful weather, and meet our supportive faculty, staff and administration. You won’t want to leave.
Associate Dean for Experiential Learning Mary-Beth Moylan teaching on the Quad.
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SACRAMENTO: CAPITAL OF INFLUENCE AND IMPACT U.S. District Courthouse
River Cats Baseball Stadium
Gordon D. Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse Golden 1 Center Arena NBA Kings
Tower Bridge American River
Crocker Art Museum
#2 Top 10 Most Fun, Affordable U.S. Cities (Bloomberg Businessweek)
#1 Happiest
Workers in Midsized Cities (CareerBliss)
#7 Healthiest
Cities in the U.S. (Fit Cities Index)
#3 Greenest “City of Trees” in the World
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The McGeorge-Sacramento Connection: Fast Facts • Founded in the city in 1924 • Teaching home of Sacramento Icon Justice Anthony Kennedy since 1966 • 3,222+ alumni practicing in Sacramento alone • 95+ McGeorge students work in clerkships or externships with Sacramento law firms, nonprofits, or government employers each year
Supreme Court of Appeal, 3rd Appellate District
State Capitol
#16 Best Cities
#6 Nation’s Greatest
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Cities for Food Lovers
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#14 America’s Coolest Cities (Forbes)
California Chamber of Commerce
Sacramento Convention Center
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#10 Least Stressed-Out Cities (CNN Money)
#25 America’s Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities
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#10 Most Diverse City in America
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START MAKING A DIFFERENCE Nine Legal Clinics • Bankruptcy • Elder & Health Law • Federal Defender • Focused Decisions • Homeless • Immigration • Legislative & Public Policy • Prisoner Civil Rights Mediation • Small Business
120+ Externship Locations, including: • Atlas Entertainment • California Environmental Protection Agency • California Supreme Court • District Attorney and Public Defenders • Fair Political Practices Commission • International Bar Association (London) • Lawyers Without Borders (Guatemala) • Nevada Supreme Court • Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. Bankruptcy Court
REAL-WORLD LAWYERING
"The skills students learn in the Clinic will serve them well no matter where their legal careers take them. It is truly special for me to participate in that journey with the students as they realize the positive change they can make in the lives of others." — Professor Blake Nordahl, Supervising Attorney for the Immigration Law Clinic
BEFORE YOU GRADUATE IN-DEPTH STUDY Centers of Distinction
Ranked #18 in the nation with an A
grade for practical training by preLaw Magazine
Global Center Ranked #24 by U.S. News & World Report Summer Program on International Legal Studies in Austria and Inter-American Summer Program in Guatemala
Advocacy Center Ranked #10 by U.S. News & World Report Award-winning moot court, mock trial and alternative dispute resolution teams
Capital Center Ranked #3 in public service careers in the government category by preLaw Magazine Capital Commendation for Public Service and Public Legal Services Society
Eight JD Certificates of Concentration Business Capital Lawyering Environmental and Water Health
Intellectual Property International Law Tax Trial & Appellate Advocacy
Lilliana Udang ’17 (Capital Lawyering JD Concentration) and Professor John Myers testify at hearing for Assembly Bill 413, which Udang and Jessica Gosney ’17 helped draft for California Assembly Members Susan Eggman and Cristina Garcia.
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LEARN FROM NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED LEGAL EXPERTS
Professor Cary Bricker, named one of the best law teachers in the United States, directs the Mock Trial program at McGeorge. (What the Best Law Teachers Do, Harvard University Press 2013.)
• Stephen McCaffrey, 2017 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate and counsel to Nicaragua in litigation with Costa Rica at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. • Omar Dajani, Co-Director of the McGeorge Global Center and legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team in peace talks with Israel.
• Franklin Gevurtz, developed and edits the Global Issues book series and leading commentator on corporate and antitrust law.
• Emily Whelan Parento, Gordon D. Schaber Health Law Scholar and former Executive Director of the Office of Health Policy in Kentucky.
• Leslie Gielow Jacobs, Director of the Capital Center for Law & Policy and expert on constitutional law and government speech.
• Michael Vitiello, Senior Editor of Bridge to Practice simulation book series and expert on criminal law, sentencing policy, and marijuana law.
Author of six books on property law, Distinguished Professor John Sprankling is a leading authority on the subject.
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GAIN THE McGEORGE GLOBAL ADVANTAGE Global Lawyering Skills, our intensive, two-year legal writing program with a real world, international perspective. Statutes and Regulations, our distinctive, first-year course focused on the law that real lawyers use most. Our unique electives, including Craft Beer Law, California Environment Cases & Places, Space Law, Marijuana Law, Crimmigration, and California Initiative Review.
Professor Adrienne Brungess brings 10 years of practice experience to coaching her Global Lawyering Skills students.
A GLOBAL NETWORK
The 13,000+ members of McGeorge’s alumni network provide a helpful and accessible network for students and recent graduates. Our alumni started here—and went wherever their ambitions took them. They are in all 50 states and 45 countries. They are judges; partners in global, midsized, and small law firms; CEOs or chief legal officers in major corporations and start-up tech firms; successful lobbyists; and leading prosecutors and public defenders. 199
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NATHAN BARANKIN '06 Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris
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SHAKIRA PLEASANT '04 Associate Professor, Savannah School of Law
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A COMMUNITY THAT PREPARES YOU FOR THE WORLD
• Alumni mentors provided for every entering McGeorge student • On-campus student housing, exercise facility, and pool • 40+ student organizations offering leadership opportunities and networking assistance McGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW McGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW
FINANCE YOUR LAW DEGREE WAYS TO REDUCE BORROWING
OTHER SOURCES OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Living in Sacramento is less expensive than in California’s metropolitan coastal areas. Additionally, small changes can make a real difference in limiting the amount borrowed—the amount that ultimately must be paid back with interest over a period of years. Cost-saving examples include the following:
Students may wish to explore a number of sources of financial assistance that are independent of the law school.
◆ Have a roommate. ◆ Cook at home rather than eating out. ◆ Drive a reliable used car (with a lower insurance premium). ◆ Limit the use of high-interest credit cards. ◆ Pay off your credit cards and don’t buy things you can’t pay for with cash. Credit card interest ranges between 10% and 30%.
◆ Look beyond your first year to the cost of a bar review course for the bar examination after graduation. Prepay for a bar review course (at a lower cost), or better still, try to get hired as a bar review representative. For a few hours a week at a table in the Student Center, you may get a free bar review course! The fees and interest rates for the bar exam loans are higher.
STUDENT BUDGET Federal regulations allow each school to compute its allowable cost of attendance (student budget). The amount acts as a ceiling in determining the amount of need-based financial aid for which a student is eligible and as a ceiling for any non-need-based student loan programs. If a school sets an artificially low estimated cost of attendance, it could seriously limit a student’s eligibility for financial aid funds needed to meet actual, reasonable costs. McGeorge includes in its computation all reasonable costs for a professional student. Some students have expenses that support an increase in the cost of attendance, such as costs for child care while a student or the student’s spouse is at work or at school. However, expenses for car payments and credit cards are not items that can be added to the cost of attendance. Sample budgets are on the McGeorge Fact Sheet.
◆ Veterans educational benefits are available to eligible students. McGeorge participates in the Yellow Ribbon Program up to full tuition. ◆ Students who participated in AmeriCorps may use their educational benefits for law school tuition. McGeorge will match the Segal Education Award for two years. ◆ Explore and apply for every scholarship for which you think you may possibly qualify. Every year several first-year students obtain scholarships independently before they come to orientation. Sources might include Rotary, Soroptimists, religious foundations, hometown or county scholarships (e.g. the Santa Barbara Foundation), local bar associations or their auxiliary spouse’s organizations. ◆ Students contribute to their educational expenses through summer employment and limited employment during the school year. Contributions from students’ families help to reduce the amount of employment and loans required to meet educational costs. ◆ McGeorge offers 68 endowed scholarships.
PART-TIME PROGRAM The part-time program is structured to permit students to be employed full-time while pursuing a JD degree. Most students take 8-10 units per semester over the course of four years, including summer school. Summer school is an additional perunit cost. Some students complete an accelerated three-and-a-half-year program. With a lighter course of study, many students can limit borrowing to the cost of tuition and continue to meet their living expenses through employment income.
go.mcgeorge.edu/financialaid
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