Pace Law School’s purpose is to transform its students into real fresh attorneys who own the required information, abilities and knowledge to make a positive and immediate influence on their selected law field.
Being led by Dean Michelle S. Simon, Pace Law School continuously seeks better ways to help its students and society. The demanding obligatory courses and combined with strong lawful exercises, factual courtroom and client exposure and various occasions to widen their abilities. Each Pace student graduates with a bottomless, wide-ranging and combined understanding of the law along with its application.
Pace Law School’s main characteristic is that its students benefit most from their intense exposure to the real world meaning of the abstract concept that they’ve learned in classroom. It provides the students with the chance for deep exploration of legal processes – from filing lawsuits to framing arguments, as litigators or as advocates. Students completely understand how the law works during their courses, whether they hope to success as an attorney in a corporation, private firm, non-profit organization, academic setting or government agency.
Being national recognized for its excellence in several areas, along with the quality and breadth of its clinical, legal writing and research, and environmental law programs, Pace Law School continuously evaluates and reshape its programs, as a way to help ensure that it equips its students with the necessary tools for meeting the challenges of a dynamic and globally increasing legal landscape. The important decisions regarding the curriculum and faculty hiring are made with the help of students and the programs are shaped in a manner that helps them continue to align with the interests and needs of the varied student body.
The student body has almost 750 scholars, coming from 35 US states and several foreign countries. Pace is comprised of dedicated scholars, practitioners and researchers, who bring wide knowledge and advanced teaching methods to the classroom and combine stimulating coursework with practical advice and lively classroom discussions. They ensure that their students receive superior preparation to become confident, knowledgeable and successful lawyers.
Pace Law School’s campus has a setting of twelve acres of landscaped grounds in an urban environment rich in opportunities. Being located in White Plain, NY, the Law School provides an easy access for its students to both NYC and the superb Hudson Valley, which makes them benefit from countless cultural, social and professional occasions.
