Admissions News

Students at Guilford College now have the option of an accelerated pathway to Elon University School of Law under a new agreement between the two Greensboro institutions.

An Elon Law, Say Yes Guilford partnership in which law students will help to address legal needs of Guilford County school students and their families was featured Oct. 27 by the News & Record and Nov. 2 by the High Point Enterprise. 

Elon Law is named one of the nation’s best law schools by The Princeton Review, which released its guide to law schools on Oct. 6. 

The entering class at Elon Law engaged in hands-on learning throughout orientation week, August 4 to 7, contributing to the launch of the school’s groundbreaking new approach to legal education. 

Delivering the Call to Honor at Elon Law’s new student convocation on August 5, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told students that they can use the law to benefit society and improve the lives of their fellow citizens. 

Elon Law's 2015 enrolling class of 132 Elon Law students is 18 percent larger than last year's class and selected from an applicant pool 16 percent higher than 2014, indicating a strong endorsement of the school's groundbreaking new curriculum.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will deliver the keynote address at Elon Law’s New Student Convocation on August 5.

 

The newspaper's June 5 cover story takes an in-depth look at Elon Law’s innovations, including full-time residencies-in-practice for all students and a redesigned curriculum that lowers tuition and accelerates careers.

Elon University School of Law and Vermont Law School will offer a dual-degree program that enables students to earn two graduate degrees in two-and-a-half years, beginning in the fall of 2015. 

The dean of Elon University School of Law offers four steps to reinvent legal education in an April 15 article for the ABA Journal’s “The New Normal” series.