Background
The John Marshall Law School in Chicago is an independent law school located just outside of Chicago’s legal, financial, and commercial districts. The Dirksen Federal Court House is located across the street and the nation’s largest circuit court — Cook County — is very close, as are many other government offices. This proximity offers John Marshall students many educational and career opportunities.
The school is ranked as #129 in 2012 and has nationally ranked trial advocacy (13th in nation, 2007), legal writing (6th in nation, 2012), and intellectual property law programs (20th in the nation). John Marshall also offers the nation’s only graduate program in employee benefits, one of the first in information technology and privacy law, and one of only two in the nation in real estate law. The bar passage rate for the July 2010 bar exam was 89.07% and 87% of John Marshall Law School graduates were employed within nine months of graduation.
An unrelated law school with the identical name has existed in Atlanta, Georgia since 1933.
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