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Inspiring tomorrow’s lawyers.Greetings from the UB School of Law! We’re proud to introduce you to our school, to the rigorous, fast-paced legal education we provide and to our state-of-the-art law center in which that education takes place.

Our extraordinary, light-filled building makes a physical statement about this law school’s vision for the future: We aim to prepare students for the 21st-century legal marketplace, and we continue to innovate to meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving profession.

For nearly 90 years, the University of Baltimore School of Law has been graduating excellent, practice-ready lawyers. Our students’ success is measurable: Last year, UB ranked in the top 50 law schools in the nation for the percentage of students employed at graduation.

Our world-class faculty guides students through the rigorous study of legal doctrine and contemporary legal theory. Meanwhile, from an early stage of their careers here, UB students confront the real-world challenges of legal practice by participating in our nationally recognized law clinics and externships throughout the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region.

The UB School of Law trains students to write, reason and advocate as lawyers. A UB legal education equips you with the knowledge and skills you need to attain your professional goals and to help expand access to justice in our community and around the world.

Thank you for your interest in the UB School of Law. Please visit us, feel free to ask us questions and take the time to find out if UB is the right law school for you.

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“ The great thing about the evening program —since all of us work, all of us have families, all of us have to deal with the same deadlines—[is] we have a great support system to make sure we get through this together.”

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Douglas Nivens II, J.D. ’14 EMPLOYED AT: the Social Security Administration’s Office of Budget, where he worked while in law school

WHILE AT UB: student attorney, Community Development Clinic

DEDICATED

B.A., UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY

Set your foundation. At the University of Baltimore School of Law, faculty teach, mentor, inspire and guide you. With distinguished credentials and wide-ranging experience, they are scholars, judges and practitioners dedicated to you and to your legal education. Our law center is a model of innovative architecture. With a U.S. Green Building Council LEED Platinum certification for its exceptional energy-efficient features, it is both sustainable and forward looking. You will learn the law in energizing classrooms full of natural light and leading-edge technology. These dynamic spaces enhance engagement and collaboration among students, faculty and staff, producing leaders in the legal community.

Ground your legal education in year one, then pursue a customized course of study to meet your career goals.Your UB School of Law education begins in your first year with a firm grounding in the doctrinal and theoretical foundations of law. In subsequent years, you can focus your studies through one of our nine concentrations or six dual-degree programs. Each concentration requires you to participate in at least one experiential course or activity, through which you’ll apply what you’ve learned in the classroom to a real-world setting. Dual-degree programs allow you to take an interdisciplinary approach to the law while working toward an additional graduate degree.

Need more options? Combine courses to build your own individualized curriculum.

CONCENTRATIONS

Business LawThe business law concentration allows you to enroll in courses ranging from taxation and banking to international trade and finance. You’ll apply your classroom learning to one of several experiential courses, such as the Community Development Clinic or the Attorney Practice Externships.

Criminal PracticeA concentration in criminal practice expands upon what you learn in the required survey class in criminal law, allowing you to explore

constitutional, evidentiary and procedural issues. You have multiple options to gain experience in the practice of criminal law, including the Criminal Practice and Innocence Project clinics and a range of externships. You can also take a seminar—a limited-enrollment course with a maximum of 20 students per section—that allows you to focus on current issues related to criminal law.

Estate PlanningA concentration in estate planning focuses on methods to dispose of estates by will, life insurance and inter vivos arrangements while considering resulting tax and administrative problems. In this concentration, you will learn estate law and gather and analyze facts to plan and draft wills, trusts and related documents. You can gain practical experience in courses like the Planning for Families and Seniors Workshop.

Family LawThe family law concentration focuses on marriage, divorce and custody. You will learn about support obligations in the family, intrafamily litigation, separation agreements, premarital controversies (antenuptial agreements and contracts of marriage), the legal position of married women, intrafamily tort liability, child custody, adoption, alimony, property disposition and jurisdiction. Apply the concepts you’ve learned in class to your work in the Bronfein Family Law Clinic or Mediation Clinic for Families.

YEAR ONE AT UB: Your first-year curriculum includes the following courses:

• Civil Procedure I *

• Constitutional Law

• Contracts I and II

• Criminal Law *

• Introduction to Advocacy

• Introduction to Lawyering Skills *

• Law in Context

• Property

• Torts *

For more information about your first year, visit law.ubalt.edu/firstyear.

* See the fact box on page 7.

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Intellectual PropertyThe intellectual property concentration includes courses that focus on trade secrets, patents, copyrights and trademarks. Coursework also addresses the policies underlying the protection of intellectual property and compares the different ways intellectual property can be used to protect commercial interests in technology and the arts. You can fulfill the experiential requirement with an externship or by participating in either the Cardozo-BMI Entertainment and Communications Moot Court Team or the Saul Lefkowitz Brand Names Foundation Moot Court Team.

International LawThe international law concentration focuses on the nature and sources of international law; procedures for handling disputes; sanctions; the roles of individual, state, regional and world organizations; the law of the sea and space; and an analysis of current challenges. You can choose from a range of experiential options in this concentration, including completing an externship, becoming a student fellow in the Center for International and Comparative Law or participating in the Immigrant Rights Clinic.

Litigation and AdvocacyThe litigation and advocacy concentration focuses on the tools needed for a successful career in the courtroom. In required courses, you will learn about federal and state rules of evidence, the process of litigation, and how to counsel and craft written and oral advocacy for your clients. Elective courses allow you to examine more in-depth issues, and a range of clinical offerings encourages you to apply what you’ve learned in the classroom.

Public ServiceA concentration in public service allows you to select one of two subspecialties: public interest and individual rights or government service and regulatory institutions. Each subspecialty includes an externship or a clinical requirement, such as the Innocence Project or Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy clinics.

Real Estate PracticeThe real estate practice concentration offers in-depth study of various issues in real estate law. Core courses cover land use and real estate finance. From there, you can choose from such electives as construction law, environmental law and local economic development. Participating in the Community Development Clinic allows you to practice the skills you learn in the classroom and to gain experience in real estate law.

Learn more about your concentration options at law.ubalt.edu/concentrations.

DUAL-DEGREE PROGRAMS

J.D./LL.M. in TaxationIf you have an interest in taxation, you can pursue both a Juris Doctor and a Master of Laws in Taxation at the UB School of Law. The LL.M. degree can be earned by taking as few as 15 additional credits in the graduate tax program.

J.D./MBA Through this joint program, you can earn a Juris Doctor and a Master of Business Administration degree in an integrated sequence of courses over three to four years. The MBA program, offered jointly by UB’s Merrick School of Business and Towson University, is accredited by AACSB International. Online MBA courses deliver flexibility and convenience.

J.D./M.P.A. The Juris Doctor/Master of Public Administration program is ideal if you want to work in federal, state or local government agencies as well as in nonprofit or quasi-governmental organizations. The M.P.A. program in UB’s College of Public Affairs is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. Online M.P.A. courses provide you with flexibility and convenience in this dual-degree program.

J.D./M.S. in Criminal JusticeThe joint J.D./M.S. in Criminal Justice program combines the Juris Doctor with study of the criminal justice system. Since criminal justice students come from many backgrounds—including law enforcement, field administration, planning, research and casework—you will gain insight into the criminal justice system from your classmates as well as from faculty.

J.D./M.S. in Negotiations and Conflict ManagementThis dual J.D./M.S. in Negotiations and Conflict Management provides you with in-depth understanding of what conflict is, why it happens and how to manage it. The M.S. program in UB’s College of Public Affairs will teach you how to facilitate understanding, mitigate destructive aspects of conflict, and mediate and implement structured resolutions.

J.D./M.P.P. or Ph.D. in Public PolicyThis dual degree is ideal if you are interested in using your law degree to influence public policy. The graduate program is offered at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

Learn more about dual-degree programs at law.ubalt.edu/dualdegree.

FACT: In your first semester, skills training is integrated into your Civil Procedure I, Criminal Law or Torts course. Introduction to Lawyering Skills teaches legal analysis, writing and research skills as you learn about a particular area of the law in a class of roughly 20 students taught by faculty,

practitioners or teaching assistants.


FIRST SUMMER, FIRST HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE.

At UB, opportunities for practical experience are woven throughout your education, beginning with your first summer. UB’s Experience in Legal Organizations (EXPLOR) program lets you intern on a volunteer basis in a legal setting during the summer after your first year of law school. For 20 years, EXPLOR has been placing students in government agencies, judges’ chambers, law firms and public-interest and nonprofit organizations, where they gain valuable legal experience. Flexible hours allow you to work, attend class and take care of personal responsibilities.

WORK WITH REAL CLIENTS. At UB, we’re serious about preparing practice-ready attorneys. That’s why during your legal education here, you are required to complete 6 experiential learning credits, which allow you to gain experience and credit toward your law degree. Three credits must come from work in a clinic or an externship, helping real people with real legal issues. The other 3 credits may come from work in a second clinic or an externship, but you can also earn them by participating in a moot court or mock trial team (see page 19) or by taking a workshop, capstone or simulation course.

Externships are supervised by a licensed attorney or judge in the workplace and are combined with a classroom component. The class allows you to discuss your experiences and observations with your classmates. More information about UB’s clinical law program is available on pages 16-17.

Hands-on learning is central to the UB School of Law’s curriculum. We seek to ensure that each graduate is ready to make the transition from law student to law practitioner.

Examples of field placements at which UB students have gained real-world experience:• Alexander & Cleaver• Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office• Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services• Civil Justice• Conti Fenn & Lawrence• Cowie & Mott• Epilepsy Foundation• Fedder and Garten• Fisher & Winner• Hermina Law Group• House of Ruth Maryland• John H. Denick & Associates• Maryland Attorney General’s Office• Maryland Department of Budget and

Management, Employee and Labor Relations• Maryland Disability Law Center• Maryland Office of the Public Defender • Maryland state appellate courts• Maryland State Ethics Commission • Maryland state trial courts• Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service • Silverman| Thompson |Slutkin| White• Social Security Administration• Stahl & Block • U.S. Department of Homeland Security,

Immigration and Customs Enforcement• U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for

Immigration Review• U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission• Wase, Wase & Grace• Women’s Law Center of Maryland • law firms across a range of practice areas• a variety of in-house corporate counsel

positions.

Put your legal education to work.

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Passage rates for UB School of Law graduates taking the Maryland bar examination for the first time

state average 78.5%

for the past two years, ub has been among the top 100 law schools for bar passage rates for first-time takers, according to u.s. news & world report.

ub law graduates 84.7%ub law graduates 84.4%

state average 80.8%

2012 aba report 2013 aba report

GAIN ADDITIONAL LEGAL EXPERIENCE.

UB School of Law students are ambitious. Often, they seek practical experiences beyond for-credit options such as externships or clinical experiences. Some of our day students work part time while carrying a full course load, and class schedules accommodate them by allowing them to work up to two full days a week. We

want you to gain as much legal experience as possible while you’re in law school and to work with organizations that are meaningful to you. In fact, as your legal education progresses, you can combine day and evening classes to create a customized law school experience that matches your specific goals and ambitions.


“ [The EXPLOR program] was a huge selling point because I don’t think there’s another school … that offers that opportunity to [its] students.”

STAT: In summer 2014, 140 students participated in the UB School of Law’s

EXPLOR program.

Ben was a judicial intern with Judge Audrey J.S. Carrion, J.D. ’84, at the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in an EXPLOR placement after his first year of law school. EXPLOR provides you the opportunity to volunteer in government agencies, judges’ chambers, law firms, and public-interest and nonprofit organizations.

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MOTIVATED

Benjamin Bor, J.D. ’14

B.A., OBERLIN COLLEGE

EMPLOYED AS: clerk with Judge Christopher Panos, J.D. ’89, at the Circuit Court for Baltimore City

WHILE AT UB: clerk, American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland

INVOLVED

Megan Burnett, J.D. ’14

B.A., UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

EMPLOYED AT: Miles & Stockbridge as an associate in the commercial and business litigation group in the Baltimore office

WHILE AT UB: student attorney, Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic

“ I [was] a summer associate at Miles & Stockbridge in Baltimore. That opportunity came along through the On-Campus Interviewing Program. In the fall, [the Law Career Development Office] brings big firms and big government agencies to campus to interview students, and the staff is there for you day and night—weekends, even—with advice to help you through the choices you might need to make.”


“ I was lucky enough to land a summer internship with the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. I saw how criminal procedure and constitutional law intersect in the real world. This opportunity allowed me to expand my knowledge about public-interest careers available today, to hone my legal skills by working with some of the government’s best attorneys and to make great contacts within the Department of Justice.”

STAT: During the 2013-14 academic year, 161 students participated in the UB

School of Law’s externship program.

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DRIVEN

John Baber, J.D. ’14

M.A., UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAB.A., GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

EMPLOYED AS: clerk for Judge Lynne Battaglia of the Maryland Court of Appeals

WHILE AT UB: legal intern, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section

Clinical education: student-attorneys representing clients.Under Maryland Rule 16, our clinic students are allowed to represent clients with the supervision of our world-class clinical faculty. When you enroll in the clinical program, you learn to be a lawyer in a way you couldn’t through classroom work alone. You will meet with clients, research their cases and plan how best to help them reach their goals. Once you have completed 30 hours of law school coursework, including certain prerequisites, you are eligible to apply for a clinic placement, which is determined by lottery.

CLINICS AT THE UB SCHOOL OF LAW As a student in The Bob Parsons Veterans Advocacy Clinic, you will help veterans to obtain benefits and you’ll assist them with other service-related legal needs. The clinic will begin serving the veteran community in fall 2014.

Bronfein Family Law Clinic students learn multi- dimensional lawyering through litigation, legislative advocacy and community education. You will serve as a lawyer for the clinic’s clients, who seek civil protection orders in cases of domestic violence, and will be involved in family matters, including divorce, child custody, child adoption and child support. Bronfein Family Law Clinic students researched and testified in Annapolis in support of legislation that lowered the burden of proof for protective and peace order cases. Gov. Martin O’Malley signed the bills into law on April 14, 2014.

The Community Development Clinic provides a wide variety of transactional legal services to and advocacy for historically underserved communities in Baltimore. You will provide legal representation —about matters including business formation, operations and financing, land use and real estate acquisition—to community associations, nonprofit organizations and small-business owners. In spring 2014, the Community Development Clinic’s Nonprofit Legal Health Check-Up brought together UB students and staff attorneys at the Community Law Center to serve nearly 20 community-based nonprofit organizations and neighborhood groups seeking legal guidance. Students planned the event, researched relevant legal standards, designed forms and questionnaires, and inter-viewed representatives from organizations in Baltimore and its surrounding counties, all using skills learned in the classroom and those gained from working with clinic clients.

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The Criminal Practice Clinic offers you the oppor-tunity to practice criminal law in Maryland’s trial courts. During the 2013-14 academic year, stu-dents in the Criminal Practice Clinic prosecuted and defended people in criminal cases in more than a dozen jurisdictions across Maryland. Cases involved such issues as drug possession, DUI, domestic violence and disorderly conduct and were heard by judges and masters. Several students also participated in a jury trial.

In the Disability Law Clinic, you will represent patients in involuntary civil commitment hearings within the Sheppard Pratt Health System. You will engage in client interviews and counseling, medical record file review, and case preparation and development. Representation culminates with an administrative hearing. Disability Law Clinic students work with a range of clients, from children with post-traumatic stress disorder to adults with schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder. UB students have also advocat-ed for less restrictive forms of intervention, such as outpatient treatment and voluntary admission.

Immigrant Rights Clinic students represent low-income immigrants in Immigration Court, in Maryland District Court and before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services. Caseloads are diverse, as are the clinic’s clients. During your clinical experience, you will touch on many areas of immigration practice—asylum law, trafficking protection, protection for battered immigrants,

family reunification and naturalization—while representing clients from all over the world. A clinic student recently handled an asylum case start to finish, interviewing the client and writ-ing a brief, investigating facts and identifying expert evidence. He won asylum for his client, a transgendered woman from Honduras who had been the victim of violence her entire life. Another student gained asylum for a teenager who had fled her abusive guardian in El Salvador.

As a student in the Innocence Project Clinic, you will defend people who claim they have been wrongly convicted. You will review records, interview clients and witnesses, conduct legal research, devise investigative strategies, draft pleadings and argue motions with supervision from a criminal defense attorney. You will develop an understanding of the post-conviction process and of issues such as eyewitness identification, forensic evidence and police interrogation methods. Students in the Innocence Project Clinic recently secured exon-eration for a client who had been serving a life sentence for murder. They also assisted in the passage of legislation that requires Maryland police officials to incorporate best practices in eyewitness identification procedures.

As a student in the Mediation Clinic for Families, you will collaborate with the court system and with a variety of Maryland legal organizations to take advantage of a wide range of opportunities in this expanding practice area. You will represent

clients in the mediation process, co-mediate fam-ily law disputes and engage in projects designed to improve the practice of family mediation. Students in the Mediation Clinic for Families have represented clients in court-ordered and private mediations involving a wide range of family disputes, primarily those involving children, and have also mediated child-access cases in a court-based mediation program.

In the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic, you will represent low-income clients in civil litigation. Caseloads are diverse, touching on many areas of civil practice, including housing, consumer rights, education and public benefits. Under faculty supervision, you will engage in the full range of activities involved in representing clients in litigation. The clinic also takes part in law reform projects to enhance civil legal policy and practice affecting low-income families and chil-dren. Students in the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic provided testimony in spring 2014 before the Maryland General Assembly on several bills, including one prohibiting landlords from retaliat-ing against tenants. Students won numerous cases in trial and administrative courts, where they defended clients against wrongful evictions and debt-collection proceedings and also helped secure public assistance and fair wages.

To learn more about the clinical program, visit law.ubalt.edu/clinics.


Build skills doing what you love. The UB School of Law’s centers are designed to help you customize your legal education and allow you to pursue work you’re passionate about while enriching your knowledge of the law. Our centers foster academic leadership, community engagement and advocacy for innovative legal policy. By participating in a center’s work, you will help effect positive change in the legal system. You’ll also have the opportunity to enhance your oral advocacy and writing skills by competing for a spot on one of the law school’s oral advocacy teams or by joining a student-run journal.

CENTERS

Center on Applied Feminism: The center works with students to apply the insights of feminist theory to create social change and to reform law. In addition to a yearly conference and regular colloquia on emerging legal areas that intersect with feminism, the center helps students plan for careers in feminist advocacy.

Center for International and Comparative Law: The center offers fellowships to those students most active in the international law concentration. These fellows participate in all aspects of the center’s research and public programs. The center has many active projects overseas, including partnerships in Brazil, China, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

Center for Medicine and Law: The center focuses on legal issues affecting contemporary medicine and health care. To support these efforts and in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine, the center operates the Johns Hopkins University/UB School of Law collaborative program in Medicine and the Law. This educational partnership features lectures at both universities and a trial simulation course, in which law students interact with medical residents while building oral and written advocacy skills.

Center for Sport and the Law: The center sponsors academic symposia, generates scholarship and engages in community partnerships. It provides students with enhanced understanding of the legal structures and institutions that shape various athletic contexts and of the field’s increasingly complex university compliance requirements.

Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts: Working to foster collaboration between the School of Law and the courts, the center promotes family justice reform, including the concept of a Unified Family Court system. The center is committed to ensuring that the practice of family law in Maryland, nationally and around the world improves the lives of children and families and the health of communities.

Scholarship in action: 2014 highlights

The Center on Applied Feminism held its seventh annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference March 6-7. The 2014 conference featured Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, as the keynote speaker. The event brings together scholars and activists from across the country to share their work and ideas about feminism.

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The Center for International and Comparative Law will celebrate its 20th anniversary in fall 2014. Festivities began in April with a lecture by Cesare Pitea of the University of Parma on conflicts between international law and the law of the European Union. The center also played a leading role in the European-American Consortium for Legal Education conference in Parma, Italy.

The Center for Medicine and Law teamed with the UB School of Law’s Faculty Research and Development Committee and the UB chapter of the Federalist Society to organize an April 28 panel discussion about Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2014. In the case, a for-profit corporation argued that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act exempted it from the general legal obligation to provide health coverage of contraceptives to its employees, based on the religious objections of the corporation’s owners.

The Center for Sport and the Law held its seventh annual Sports Law Symposium on Feb. 6, with prominent sports agents, attorneys and athletic department representatives from local universities taking part. The keynote session featured a conversation with National Football League agent Tom Condon, J.D. ’81.

The Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts held its sixth annual Urban Child Symposium, “Social Media and the Urban Child: The Effects of the Digital Age,” on April 3. It attracted national scholars and focused on the ways our modern technological landscape affects the lives of urban children and their families.

For more information on our centers, visit law.ubalt.edu/centers.

ORAL ADVOCACY TEAMS

Oral advocacy teams accustom you to the etiquette and environment of a courtroom while sharpening the skills you need to build a convincing oral argument. At the UB School of Law, you can compete for a spot on one of the following teams:

• AmericanAssociationforJusticeStudentTrialAdvocacy Competition

• AmericanBarAssociationSectionofLaborand Employment Law’s Student Trial Advocacy Competition

• AmericanCollegeofTrialLawyersNational Trial Competition

• ByronL.WarnkenMootCourtCompetition— 21 teams compete to represent UB nationally

• NationalBlackLawStudentsAssociationFrederick Douglass Moot Court Competition

• TrialAdvocacyTeam.

JOURNALS

As a member of a student-run law journal, you will gain experience researching, writing and working closely with your peers. Journal members solicit articles from law faculty across the country and also write comments on topics of their own choosing. Students are selected to participate based on a writing competition and a minimum GPA specified by each journal. Your participation can earn you 1 ungraded credit per semester, and you can earn as many as 8 credits total.

• University of Baltimore Law Review

• University of Baltimore Law Forum

• Journal of Land and Development

• Journal of International Law

To learn more about a specific journal, visit law.ubalt.edu/academics/publications.


COMPASSIONATE

Jonathan Caballero, J.D. ’14

B.A., NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

EMPLOYED AS: law clerk at Donovan & Rainie, where he worked while in law school

WHILE AT UB: student attorney, Immigrant Rights Clinic

“ My experience with the Immigrant Rights Clinic was one of the most rewarding and professionally beneficial experiences at the UB School of Law. … Our clients were two young victims of gang violence from Central America. Building rapport with them was challenging since they had been victimized at such a young age. When my clinic partner and I finally broke through and earned their trust, it was a great feeling. At the end of the semester, I felt like I had made a difference to our clients and set a solid foundation for the rest of their case.”COMPASSIONATE


At the crossroads of a vibrant legal community. Living and studying in Baltimore will expose you to diverse legal opportunities, including an extensive range of government and nonprofit organizations in Maryland and in Washington, D.C., only an hour away. No matter what type of law you want to practice, you’ll find your best legal education right here.

Your UB School of Law education will teach you to appreciate all angles and perspectives on issues and to work with others to achieve the best possible results. You can gain experience in numerous ways: working within legal organizations while in school, doing pro bono work, joining student groups and organizations, and participating in programming sponsored

by the law school. The UB School of Law is committed to bringing members of the legal community to campus for panel discussions, symposia and mentoring, and it also places you with practitioners in the field to ensure you get a dynamic, interactive and well-rounded legal education.

The main entrance to UB’s John and Frances Angelos Law Center is just one block south of Baltimore’s Penn Station, which is served by Amtrak and Maryland’s MARC train system. The Light Rail’s University of Baltimore-Mount Royal stop is two blocks from the Angelos Law Center, and the State Center Metro stop is four blocks from campus. The Jones Falls Expressway (I-83), which runs through the heart of Baltimore, has two exits at the University.

STAT: In 2013, 18.1 percent of the UB School of Law graduates who reported on their placements secured a judicial clerkship in a state or local trial or appellate court. The national average for such placements is 9 percent, as reported by the National

Association for Law Placement.

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philadelphia: 102 miles

new york city: 187 miles

washington, d.c.: 41 miles

university of baltimore

alexandria: 46 miles

richmond

norfolk virginia beach

pittsburg

boston

providence

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100 MI LES

200 M I L ES

YOU’RE READY.

Rebecca Coleman, J.D. ’10

B.A. AND B.S., BOSTON UNIVERSITY

assistant attorney general, Maryland Attorney General’s Office

SINCE LAW SCHOOL: She served as an Open Society Institute Baltimore Community Fellow and practiced consumer law and consumer bankruptcy law in solo practice before joining the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. She currently prosecutes civil regulatory enforcement actions on behalf of

the Maryland commissioner of financial regulation.

“ During the summer after my 1L year, I was fortunate to find a paid law clerk position with Civil Justice, a local consumer nonprofit, through the UB Law Career Development Office. That initial summer job … led directly to a postgraduate fellowship from the Open Society Institute and eventually to my current position at the Maryland Attorney General’s Office.”

YOU’RE READY.


Put your law degree to work. Become part of the network.Baltimore is home to a large, active legal community willing to support you as you embark on a legal career. Roughly 2,800 UB School of Law alumni live or work in Baltimore. If you include all of Maryland and Washington, D.C., nearly 10,000 UB law alumni are nearby. Many enthusiastically mentor UB law students and enjoy watching new generations of UB-trained lawyers succeed.

Many students pursue a legal education with the intention of practicing law. These students dream of advocating for clients in court, helping individuals complete an estate plan or providing legal advice in business transactions. Others may intend never to practice law but know a law degree will further their career goals. A University of Baltimore School of Law education will prepare you for whatever career path you choose.

Approximately 52 percent of the class of 2013 found employment in positions for which bar admission was required. An additional 27.4 percent of the class of 2013 found employment in positions for which a J.D. was required or preferred by the employer. The national average for graduates landing J.D. advantage positions is 13.8 percent. Alumni from the UB School of Law are employed in business and industry, in legislative and many other government positions, and in regulatory and policy analyst positions.

Employment data are collected annually by the UB Law Career Development Office. Additional employment data can be found at law.ubalt.edu/career.

NINE-MONTH SURVEY OF 2013 GRADUATES

Total number of graduates 311

Number of graduates who reported 307

Percentage of reporting graduates employed 84.7%

PRACTICE SETTING Academic 5.4%

Business or industry 14.2%

Judicial clerkships 18.1%

Private practice 39.6%

Government 17.3%

Public interest 5.4%

TYPE OF POSITION

Bar passage required 51.5%

J.D. advantage 27.4%

Other professional 4.6%

Nonprofessional 1.3%

Pursuing an additional full-time degree 2.0%

Unemployed—seeking employment 12.1%

Unemployed—not seeking employment 1.3%

STAT: About one-third of the judges currently serving the state of Maryland are

UB School of Law alumni.

The employment information presented is self-reported by UB School of Law graduates. We regularly collect employment information from our most recent graduating class, following guidelines established by the National Association for Law Placement and the American Bar Association.

Recent UB School of Law graduates are employed with the following organizations and others:

•CentersforMedicaid&MedicareServices

•FederalDepositInsuranceCorp.

•HomelessPersonsRepresentationProject

•HouseofRuthMaryland

•MarylandDisabilityLawCenter

•MarylandLegalAid

•Miles&Stockbridge

•OfficeoftheState’sAttorneyforBaltimore City, Major Investigations Unit

•PessinKatzLaw

•SaulEwing

•U.S.DepartmentofJustice,ExecutiveOffice for Immigration Review

•Venable

•Women’sLawCenterofMaryland

•DistrictCourtofMaryland,Maryland Circuit Courts, Court of Special Appeals of Maryland and Court of Appeals of Maryland

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84.7 PERCENT OF REPORTING CLASS OF 2013 GRADUATES ARE EMPLOYED*: *98.7 percent of class of 2013 graduates reported on their employment status.

TYPE OF POSITION: BREAKDOWN OF REPORTING CLASS OF 2013 GRADUATES

What is J.D. advantage? The National Association for Law Placement defines it as “a category of jobs for which bar passage is not required but for which a J.D. degree provides a distinct advantage.”

bar passage required: 51.5%

nonprofessional: 1.3%

other professional: 4.6%

j.d. advantage: 27.4%

unemployed—seeking employment: 12.1%

unemployed—not seeking employment: 1.3%

pursuing an additional full-time degree: 2.0%

business or industry: 14.2%

government: 17.3%

judicial clerkships: 18.1%

private practice: 39.6%

employed full time: 90%

employed part time: 10%

public interest: 5.4% academic: 5.4%

FULL TIME VS. PART TIME

PRACTICE SETTING

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Steven Silverman, J.D. ’91

B.A., UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND

managing partner, Silverman|Thompson| Slutkin | White

SINCE LAW SCHOOL: After entering private practice in 1995, Silverman has obtained several multimillion-dollar civil judgments on behalf of his clients against some of the world’s largest corporations and insurance companies. He has also been named as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in

Maryland, 2007-14, by The National Trial Lawyers.

“ UB was perfect for me. It gave me all the tools to be able to do whatever I wanted to do without forcing me or influencing me into any particular way of thinking or any path of practicing, and I’m forever grateful for that.”


You’re ready for UB. What’s next?Just a few steps stand between you and the beginning of your law career.

GETTING STARTED

• Visit the Law School Admission Council online at www.lsac.org. There, you’ll find our application, information about the LSAT and a guide to the law school application process.

• First-year and transfer applicants are required to register for the Credential Evaluation Service.

• Applicants for all programs are encouraged to apply through LSAC. If you need to use a paper application, you may download the 2014 application at law.ubalt.edu/applynow.

• The School of Law admits students on a rolling basis. First-year applications are accepted for the fall semester only.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

At the UB School of Law, we offer scholarships and grants to as many of our most qualified applicants as possible. More than 60 percent of fall 2014 admitted applicants were offered a scholarship or grant. The average offer to admitted applicants was $11,900 for Maryland residents and $14,800 for students from out of state. For the fall 2014 entering class, 48 percent of enrolled students received scholarships or grants.

Scholarships for Maryland ResidentsYou are automatically considered for Maryland Higher Education Commission scholarships if you complete the FAFSA by May 1, are a Maryland resident and meet need-based requirements.

American Bar Association Legal Opportunity ScholarshipThe ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to minority students. Applications must be submitted to the ABA by March 1.

Learn more about these scholarships at law.ubalt.edu/scholarships.

VISIT US

The Office of Law Admissions can help you explore the opportunities offered by the UB School of Law. Schedules for classroom visits and counseling appointments can be found at law.ubalt.edu/admissions.

University of Baltimore School of Law Office of Law Admissions 1420 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201

[email protected] 410.837.4459

FALL 2014 ENTERING CLASS*

Day ProgramMedian GPA: 3.285

Median LSAT score: 152

Gender: 52.60% male/47.40% female

Median age: 23.7

Evening Program Median GPA: 3.11

Median LSAT score: 152

Gender: 44.40% male/55.60% female

Median age: 27.25

EthnicityAsian: 6.36%

Black: 13.98%

Hispanic: 5.51%

Caucasian (non-Hispanic): 67.37%

Identify with two or more ethnicities: 2.54%

Not specified: 4.24%

Students come from 104 undergraduate institutions and 15 states.

*data as of Aug. 7, 2014

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Jennifer Nwachukwu, J.D. ’15extern, Maryland Commission on Civil Rights

director of community service, UB Black Law Students Association

B.A., UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL

“ The first thing I would tell a prospective student is to come to UB! I really enjoyed my first year of law school. [People often fear] being in a Type A, cutthroat environment—you’re not really going to see that here.”

University of Baltimore School of Law Office of Law Admissions 1420 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201 [email protected] 410.837.4459

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