Welcome to MU Law
On behalf of all of us at the University of Missouri School of Law, I welcome you to our Web site and invite you to explore the many experiences and opportunities that the Law School has to offer.
The University of Missouri Law School is one of the smaller law schools in the nation – giving our students a real advantage in getting to know their professors and classmates and helping to create a very supportive law school community. In a recent national survey of student satisfaction, MU students rated the Law School 20th in the nation and first among Missouri law schools.
This is a law school where students get involved both in the classroom and in many co-curricular activities. In one of our four legal clinics students can draft legislation, work in the prosecuting attorney’s office, represent victims of family violence, or mediate disputes referred from the state and federal courts and governmental agencies. We have an extremely active moot court program, three student-edited legal journals, and student organizations through which you can pursue your interests both within and outside the law. Beyond the law school, the University of Missouri offers even more opportunities, and students may find themselves rooting for the Missouri Tigers, attending a concert, and volunteering in a public service project in the same weekend.
Our students have many wonderful opportunities after they leave the Law School. Mizzou’s first-time takers of the Summer 2007 Missouri Bar Examination passed that exam at a rate of 96.5%, while all 11 Mizzou graduates taking the Kansas Bar Examination for the first time that same summer also were successful. After passage of the bar examination, our graduates practice in law firms of all sizes, with the federal and state government, in public interest settings, and serve as judicial law clerks. Mizzou alumni serve at all levels of the Missouri judiciary, as both federal trial and appellate judges, in the United States Congress and Senate, and as governor of Oregon. Our graduates are found in every county of Missouri, in 48 states, and in 16 foreign countries.
From my interactions with students as dean and in my first-year Civil Procedure course, I have found our students to be extremely bright, engaged, and supportive of the many friends they make at the Law School. I encourage you to consider joining them, and us, here at the University of Missouri School of Law.
