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Northwestern Law School, located in the heart of Chicago, is one of the top law schools in the country, currently ranked 11th by U.S. News and World Report. tied with Duke Law. Its acceptance rate was 17.6% in 2007.

In addition to the application and fee, applicants must submit:

• Personal statement
• LSDAS report including LSAT score
• One letters of recommendation

For complete information on admission procedures at Northwestern Law, see Required Items .

Northwestern Law generally accepts about 30-35 transfer students a year; applicants must have completed one year in an ABA-accredited law school and, once transferred, can participate in all law school activities, including moot court, on-campus interviewing, and journals.

Transfer applicants should follow the same application procedure as for regular admission.

For more information on transferring to Northwestern Law, see Transfer/Visiting .

In order to earn a Juris Doctor degree, a Northwestern Law student must earn 86 semester credit hours and complete an upper-level writing requirement. For more detailed information, see Degree Requirements .

The first-year curriculum includes Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Property, Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law, and Communication and Legal Reasoning I and II.

Other degrees offered include J.D./M.B.A. with the Kellogg School of Management, J.D./Ph.D.. and various L.L.M. programs .

Northwestern Law offers more than 10 study abroad programs including locations in Australia, Argentina, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Singapore, Israel, and Brazil.

Northwestern Law has six student-run journals. including the Northwestern University Law Review. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. and Journal of International Human Rights Law .

Along with many student organizations. the law school has specialized programs and centers for specific legal interests, such as the Children and Family Justice Center, Small Business Opportunity Center, and Center on Wrongful Convictions.

A majority of Northwestern Law students take the Illinois State Bar Exam and, in 2007, achieved a 95.1% pass rate. The overall pass rate for the Illinois Bar Exam was 87%.

From the 2007 graduating class, 96.2% were employed at graduation and 99.2% were employed nine months after graduation. The median starting salary in the private sector was $135,000 and $55,000 in the public sector.

Seventy-nine percent of the Class of 2007 secured work in private practice, 9% received judicial clerkships, 7% entered the business field and 5% accepted government or public interest positions.

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