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Global
learning
Loyola’s top-notch
Study Law
Abroad Program and field studies
were offered this past year in London,
Rome, Beijing, and Cambodia.
Kevin
Langendorf, Kelsey Collisi,
and
Cash Kinghorn,
pictured from left
at the Summer Palace in Beijing,
attended the 2015 Study Law Abroad
Program in China.
EXCELLENCE IN PREPARATION
FOR PRACTICE
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Student
competitors
This past academic year,
108 Loyola law students
competed in
32 national and international
competitions
and won
22 awards.
Pictured
below: Loyola’s 2014-15 Criminal Law Mock Trial
team with
Dan K. Webb Center for Advocacy
Director Zelda Harris.
L O Y O L A U N I V E R S I T Y C H I C A G O S C H O O L O F L A W
Serving the
community
Eighty-one law students partici-
pated in Loyola’s
2015 Orienta-
tion Day of Service
in August.
Activities included
working with
the Center for Disability and
Elder Law
to assist senior citizens
with advance directives, and
distributing games to Chicago
children who attended a summer
meals program.
students benefited last year from a
hands-on learning opportunity in
one of Loyola’s
seven legal clinics.
210
full-time faculty members
supervise
students in Loyola legal clinics,
which provide students with
solid
practical experience.
17
students participated in an externship
during the 2014-15 academic year.
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Bridge to practice
Loyola students now have the opportunity to earn academic
credit through the
summer semester externship field
placement program inWashington, DC.
A complementary
seminar course exposes students to the intricacies of working in
the
judiciary, federal government, and not-for-profit agencies
in
our nation’s capital.
Largest
single-practice
interview program
More than 1,150 students
from 185 law schools registered
for
Loyola’s 29th Annual
Patent Law Interview
Program
—the
largest single-
practice interview program
in the country.
Approximately
140 employers participated in
the July two-day program
organized by the School of Law’s
Office of Career Services.
