Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

As a national leader in experiential legal education, Touro Law Center in Central Islip, New York, focuses on teaching the law while providing hands-on learning opportunities that serve members of our community in need. Our flexible programs, including full-time, part-time and FlexTime, were developed to meet the varied needs of qualified candidates who are committed to learning the law. These initiatives were recognized, and Touro Law was ranked by College Consensus in the Top 10 Hybrid/Online Law Schools for 2022.

EXPERIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Touro Law focuses on integrating the traditional law school curriculum with real-world experience. Our students gain doctrinal knowledge, skills development, professional values and early practice opportunities through simulated and real lawyering experiences in our classrooms, clinics and field placements.

Touro Law received recognition as one of the most diverse law schools in the country and has recently increased efforts to fund scholarships for our minority students. We have an active Office of Diversity & Inclusion that helps ensure the school’s commitment to diversity by promoting, creating and maintaining an inclusive environment.

Touro Law has nearly 30 active student organizations as well as several honor societies, including Touro Law Review, Moot Court and the Trial Advocacy Practice Society. These groups foster a spirit of community among the student body and provide additional opportunities for students to develop individual interests and advocacy skills.

CURRICULUM AND STUDY

Touro Law recently merged campuses with The School of Health Sciences of Touro College,

Kathleen Rice, Esq.

U.S. Congresswoman

The Touro Law Center served as the last port of call before Congresswoman Kathleen Rice launched her journey as a public servant. “I left Touro with this relentless desire to fight for justice and the public good,” says Representative Rice. “My Touro roots continue to inspire me in that fight to this day.”

Rice’s first stop on her voyage after graduation in 1991 was as assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, where she prosecuted cases of domestic violence and gang activity. Rice’s work led to an appointment to the post of assistant U.S. attorney in the Department of Justice’s Philadelphia office.

Then, in 2005, it was back to where it all began in Garden City, New York, where Rice was raised as one of nine brothers and sisters. It was on her return home that she first pursued elected office—first as district attorney of Nassau County, before moving on to the national stage in 2014 with the first of four Congressional wins.

Today Rice proudly honors her Touro legacy of public service by representing the citizens of New York’s 4th Congressional District in the halls of Congress. In addition to her work on the House Floor and back in her district, Rice serves on the distinguished House Homeland Security Committee and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

She is especially proud of her community work to protect families from senseless drunk and impaired driving tragedies. “When I was district attorney, I launched an aggressive campaign to strengthen drunk driving prevention, prosecution and education efforts,” Rice says. “And I’ve continued this fight in Congress. I won’t stop working on these issues until we end drunk and impaired driving once and for all.”

One of the biggest lessons that the Congresswoman took away from Touro was the importance of community and having a strong support structure in life. “Touro Law is a family—we take care of and help each other,” says Rice. “We are passionate about the law, social justice and the impact of law on those around us.”

creating a Long Island campus. Our location, adjacent to both a state and federal courthouse, provides synergies for both teaching and learning as well as collaborations for unique student opportunities.

Every Touro Law student is offered the opportunity to participate in both externships and clinics. Clinical offerings include bankruptcy; advanced bankruptcy; child advocacy; criminal defense; criminal prosecution; education and youth justice; senior citizens’ law; immigration law; landlord-tenant; mortgage foreclosure; small business and not-for-profit; and the Veterans’ and Servicemembers’ Rights Clinic.

Since our founding, Touro Law has been committed to providing a quality legal education that promotes social justice and community service. Today we stand as a leader in public service with a national reputation for disaster relief services, a Public Advocacy Center and several programs that provide opportunities for students to make an impact in the lives of the underserved, while gaining hands-on experiences including mock trial and street law programs, justice for all partnership program and others.

AFFORDABILITY To address affordability and access to legal education, the Law Center has raised significant funds for student scholarships, and we now have more than 70 named scholarships. Approximately 97 percent of admitted students receive scholarships.