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NAMES AND ADDRESSES
Law School:	Stanford Law School
Address:	Crown Quadrangle
	559 Nathan Abbott Way
City:	Stanford
State, Zip:	CA, 94305-8610
Country:	United States
Phone:	650-723-3924

Administrator Name:	Susan Robinson
Administrator Title:	Associate Dean
Phone:	650-723-3924
Fax:	650-723-0212
Email:	susanr@law.stanford.edu
Web:	http://www.law.stanford.edu/experience/careers/ocs/

Registrar's Name:	Kim Borg
Phone No:	650-723-0994
Names & titles of key CSO staff:	Please see our website (http://www.law.stanford.edu/school/offices/ocs/#office_contacts) for a complete list of OCS staff.

DEGREE PROGRAMS

No. of hours required to graduate:

111

Comments:

No. of Full-time students

571

No. of Evening students:

No. of Part-time students:

Other:

Total:

571

COMPOSITION OF ENROLLMENT

'12-'13 Year	1st Year	2nd Year	3rd Year	4th Year	Total
Men:	105	113	109	0	327
Woman:	75	78	91	0	244
Totals:	180	191	200	0	571
Black (Men):	6	6	5	0	17
Black (Women):	9	6	10	0	25
Hispanics (Men):	18	9	12	0	39
Hispanics (Women):	10	15	9	0	34
American Indian/Alaskan (Men):	0	0	1	0	1
American Indian/Alaskan (Women):	0	0	0	0	0
Asian/Pacific Islander (Men):	8	9	10	0	27
Asian/Pacific Islander (Women):	15	7	9	0	31
Disabled (Men):	0	0	0	0	0
Disabled (Woman):	0	0	0	0	0
Openly GLBT (Men):	3	3	3	0	9
Openly GLBT (Woman):	0	2	1	0	3
Comments:

Do you offer LL.M. degrees?	Yes
Is LL.M. grading system equivalent to JD system?	Yes
Do you offer joint degree programs?	Yes
NO. of LL.M. degrees awarded in previous year:	34

FIELDS OF STUDY OFFERED > LL.M DEGREES:

Subjects	Full-time	Evening	Part-time	Other
Law, Science & Tech	11
Corporate Law & Business	11
JSD	8
JSM	12

FIELDS OF STUDY OFFERED > JOINT DEGREES:

Subjects	Full-time	Evening	Part-time	Other
No records retrieved.

ADMISSIONS PROFILE

Applications received:

3783

Size of entering class:

180

No. of undergraduate colleges represented:

No. of states represented:

N/A

In-state enrollment:

N/A

Out-state enrollment:

N/A

Foreign countries represented:

N/A

GRADE POINT AVERAGE / LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION TEST

		25%	50%	75%
Grade Point Average	Full-time	3.72	3.85	3.93
	Part-time
	Overall	3.72	3.85	3.93
Law School Admission Test	Full-time	167	170	173
	Part-time
	Overall	167	170	173

In determining GPA and LSAT averages, are all students included?

If "No", what percentage is not included?

.5% No reportable GPA.

JD PROGRAM

Fall Semester:	Begin Date:
	End Date:

Spring Semester:	Begin Date:
	End Date:

Semester Break:	Begin Date:
	End Date:

Spring Break:	Begin Date:
	End Date:

CLINICAL COURSES/PROGRAMS OFFERED

Clinical Courses/Program	Enrollment Based on
Community Law Clinic
Community Law Clinic, Advanced
Criminal Defense Clinic
Criminal Prosecution Clinic
Environmental Law Clinic
Environmental Law Clinic, Advanced
Externship, Civil Law
Externship, Criminal Law
Externship, Special Circumstances
Federal Litigation (First Year Course)
Federal Pretrial Litigation
Immigrants' Rights Clinic
Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Advanced
International Human Rights and Development Clinic
Int'l Human Rts and Development Clinic: Advanced
Mediation
Organizations and Transactions Clinic
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Advanced
Three Strikes Project
Three Strikes Project, Advanced
Trial Advocacy Workshop
Youth and Education Law Project
Youth and Education Law Project, Advanced

SPECIAL TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS

MOOT COURT PROGRAM

Is Moot Court a required activity?

Please describe program, including when students participate, how board members are selected, etc.

Second and third year students may participate for three units of credit in the intra-school Marion Rice Kirkwood competition, which is administered by a faculty advisors and the Moot Court Board. Board membership is based on previous participation in the Kirkwood Competition.

JOURNALS/ACTIVITIES

JOURNALS

Journals	No. of Students	Grades	Write-on	Intv.	Other
Stanford Law Review	87	no	yes	no	none
Environmental Law Journal	27	no	no	no	none
Journal of International Law	35	no	no	no	none
Journal of Law, Business & Finance	29	no	no	no	none
Stanford Law & Policy Review	132	no	no	no	none
Stanford Techology & Law Review	38	no	no	no	none
Journal of Civil Rts. & Civil Liberties	31	no	no	no	none
Stanford Journal, Law, Science & Policy	18	no	no	no	none
Stanford Journal of Animal Law & Policy	6	no	no	no	none
Stanford Law School Documentary Project	29	no	no	no	none

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Asian & Pacific Islander Law Students Assocation

Black Law Students Association

Native American Law Students Association

OUTLAW

Stanford Latino Law Students Association

Women of Color Action Network

Advanced Degree Student Association

American Bar Association, Law Students Division

American Constitution Society

Animal Legal Defense Fund

China Law and Policy Association

J. Reuben Clark Law Society

Criminal Law Society

Drama Society

Environmental Law Society

Federalist Society

Jewish Law Students Association

First Person

Law Association

Marion Rice Kirkwood Moot Court Board

National Lawyers Guild

Public Interest Coalition

Shaking the Foundations

Stanford BioLaw and Health Policy Society

Stanford Entertainment and Sports Law Association

Stanford International Human Rights Association

Stanford International Law Society

Stanford Law and Technology Association

Stanford Law School Mock Trial Program

Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation (SPILF)

Street Law

Acappellants

Civil Rights & Civil LIberties Society

JD/MBA Club

Older Wiser Law Students

Real Estate & Land Use Association

SLS Academy

League of Stanford Transfers

SLS Christian Fellowship

Stanford Law & Wine Society

Stanford National Security & the Law Society

Women of Stanford Law (WSL)

Stanford Law Democrats

Youth & Education Advocates of Stanford Law

Barker's Guild

Stanford Assoc. of Law Students for Disability Rts

Stanford Law School Energy Club

Stanford Intellectual Property Association

Stanford Law Students for Reproductive Justice

Stanford Law Veterans Organization

Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project

The Voting Rights Project

Joint Degree Student Association

Law Students Building A Better Legal Profession

Parents Attending Law Schools (PALS)

Stanford Assoc. for Law in the Middle East (SALME)

GRADING SYSTEM

EXPLANATION OF GRADING SYSTEMS

Letter Grades	Other Grade System?	Numerical Equivalents
A+
A
A-
B+
B
B-
C+
C
C-
D
F

Comments:

MINIMUM GRADE REQUIRED TO ATTAIN (Based on May 2012 graduation class)

Top 10%:

We Do Not

Top 25%:

Rank Our

Top 33%:

Students

Top 50%:

Top 75%:

Median GPA:

Minimum grade required for graduation:

Do you have a pass/fail option?

Yes

If "Yes", please describe:

Please see narrative for description.

Are students ranked in their class?

If so, how often?

Will the school verify student grades?

Yes

Please describe policy:

In accordance with FERPA regs, Stanford Law School will verify grades with the permission of the student. The Career Services Office also distributes a grade explanation sheet.

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Name of Award	No. Awarded	Selection Process
Frank Belcher Evidence Award	1	Best academic work in Evidence
Steven M. Block Civil Liberties Awa	3	Best written work on personal freedom issues
Carl Mason Franklin Prize/Int'l Law	1	Outstanding paper(s) in International Law
Olaus & Adolph Murie Award	2	Best written work in Environmental Law
Hilmer Oehlmann Jr. Prizes	10	First Year LRW and Fed. Litigation Award
Marion Rice Kirkwood Moot Court	4	Best oral advocate, brief, team, runner-up te
Stanford Law Review	1	Best editorial contribution to SLR
Gerald Gunther Prize		Excellence in exam class
John Hart Ely Prize		Excellence in paper class
Judge Thelton E. Henderson Prize		Excellence in clinical course
Kirkland & Ellis Scholars	6	Scholastic achievement in the first year.

GRADUATION HONORS

	% of Class Receiving	GPA Required	# of Students
Order of the Coif:	Not given
Summa cum laude:	Not given
Magna cum laude:	Not given
Cum laude:	Not given
Other:	Not given

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Areas of practice (Include both legal and non-legal positions)	% of employed students with jobs in area	Employment locations	% of students with known location who are in region
Private practice:	55	New England:	1.5
Business and industry:	4	Middle Atlantic:	16
Government:	4	East North Central:	8
Judicial clerkship:	26	West North Central:	1
Military:	0	South Atlantic:	19
Public interest organization:	9	East South Central:	0.5
Academic:	2	West South Central:	2
Job category not identified:	0	Mountain:	6
		Pacific:	45
		Non-US:	1

Jurisdictions: (states and/or metropolitan areas)
with the highest % of graduates from the most recent graduating class

ON CAMPUS INTERVIEWS

Week invitations are sent to employers:

Week of March 5, 2012

OCI requests accepted by:

Mail Beginning Date:
Phone beginning date:
Email beginning date:		To Email:
Online beginning date:	03/05/2012	URL:	https://law-stanford-csm.symplicity.com

Please specify any changes in OCI procedures or policies that will be in effect for the first time during Fall 2013 :

No new procedures for Fall 2012. Employers will again register on-line. Past participants will be invited. New employers should contact our office for ID and password.

OCI date assignment procedure:
	First come first served	Random
	Early/Late Rotation	Out of state employer by geographic location

Comments:

OCI Fee?

Contact the office for information or consult OCS website.

OCI date confirmation will be sent to employers:

May 4, 2012

if requested our school will coordinate with:

UC Hastings (Contact Office of Career Services for guidelines regarding coordination).

Describe required employer forms:

Signed copy of our OCI policies (inc. SLS Non-Discrimination Policy); SLS's Addendum To The NALP Workplace Environment Questionnaire uploaded to employer's profile on Symplicity; Completion of the NALP form and Workplace Environment Questionnaire at nalpdirectory.com.

OCI DATES

OCI dates for August:

OCI dates for Fall:

08/20/2012 - 08/31/2012

OCI dates for Spring:

Flyback dates:

Is video conferencing available? Yes

Comments:

Video conferencing is accommodated on an as-needed basis.

Are employers permitted to prescreen? No

If "No", explain:

Interviews are allocated initially through a lottery, then manual sign-ups.

OCI drop date:

Date student materials sent to employer:

Date interview schedule sent to employer:

Postage/express mail fee?

Comments:

We use Symplicity as an on-line job database. We also offer a Resume Collection option wherin we open the website to enable employers to download the applicants' resumes in batch.

Do you provide resume collection or direct mail option for employers not participating in OCI? Yes

Are all OCI conducted in campus buildings? Yes

If "No", describe alternatives and reservation procedure:

OTHER INTERVIEW PROGRAMS

Cooperative/Consortia:

1. Cooperative/Regional Interview Programs (Consortia)
Nine Bay Area schools collaborate to host the Annual Public Interest/Public Sector Day in February. Student resumes are sent to public interest/public sector employers for prescreening. Contact Anna Wang, Deputy Director, Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law, at 650-723-2519 for additional information.

Diversity Interview Programs:

JOB POSTING

Will you send, upon request, one package containing resumes/transcripts? No

Will you post a notice directing students to apply directly to employer? Yes

If you provide job listings for graduates, describe how to send notice, when employers can expect responses, length of time notice is posted (whether in print or online), etc.;

If employers have job openings, whether for summer, part-time or post-graduation, we encourage them to notify Stanford Law School students and alumni. They should enter the job(s) online at https://law-stanford-csm.symplicity.com/employers.

If the employer is new to Stanford and has never posted a job online with us before, the recruiter will have to register first, providing basic contact information about the company or organization. That information will not have to be re-entered in the future.

For law school alumni, there is a Stanford Law Community website where alumni can network, and alumni-to-alumni job opportunities are also posted.

Please contact our office at 650-723-3924 or ocs@law.stanford.edu with any questions

FIRST YEAR STUDENTS

Describe any special regulations pertaining to the recruitment of first year students that are in addition to the NALP guidelines. For example, are first year students eligible for spring OCI? When are job notices posted during second semester?

Stanford Law School supports the NALP guidelines. First-year law students participate in the Spring OCI Program in late January. Job notices may be posted to first-year students at https://law-stanford-csm.symplicity.com/employers.

DIVERSITY PROGRAMS

Stanford law students participate in the Bay Area Minority Summer Clerkship Program, which is sponsored by three bar associations in cooperation with six San Francisco area law schools.

When an employer expresses a special interest in minority students, we post these positions to an on-line group which students can elect to join if they wish to receive announcements specific to diversity candidates. We appreciate learning of recruitment programs elsewhere in the nation in which our students can participate.

PRO BONO PROGRAM

Stanford Law School (SLS) strives to educate and train the best lawyers in the country through its curriculum and programs. SLS established the Pro Bono Program to ensure that its students and faculty have opportunities to increase their knowledge and legal skills, and to serve the public.

The ethical standards of the American legal profession state that lawyers should aspire to provide significant pro bono publico legal services. Members of the legal profession advance the common good through rigorous representation of clients and dedication to ethical standards that require them to serve the public. SLS similarly expects its students and faculty to aspire to provide such service. For the purposes of this policy, law-related pro bono work includes any uncompensated public service in which legal skills are exercised.

All students are encouraged to participate in the Pro Bono Program. Ideally, students will undertake at least 50 hours of law-related pro bono work during their time at the Law School. Clinical coursework over and above the number of hours set by clinical instructors as appropriate for their course may be counted toward this standard. A student who meets the 50 hour goal will be recognized for his or her community service at a reception in their honor, the annual Public Interest Awards ceremony and graduation.

NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY

The recruiting policies and guidelines of Stanford Law School have been developed to contribute to a positive and successful experience for students and recruiters. These guidelines are designed to support the academic mission of the School. Stanford Law School's Policy on non-discrimination in employment has been in effect since 1985 and parallels the policy required of member schools by the Association of American Law Schools:

Stanford Law School makes its facilities and services open only to employers who do not discriminate on the basis of age, religion, disability, ethnic background, national origin, gender, race, sexual orientation, or veteran status. However, the School's non-discrimination policy permits, and Stanford Law School encourages, lawful affirmative action in hiring women and the members of minority groups that are under-represented in the legal profession.

NARRATIVES/OTHER NOTES

NARRATIVES

STANFORD LAW SCHOOL'S GRADING POLICY (effective Aut. 2008-2009 for JDs graduating after June 2009):

HONORS/PASS
In the majority of courses, e.g., those graded by exam or paper and Legal Research and Writing/Federal Litigation in the first-year JD curriculum, the following grades will be given:

H - Honors (Representing exceptional work, significantly superior to the average performance at the school.)
P - Pass (Representing successful mastery of the course material.)
R  - Restricted credit (Representing work that is plainly unsatisfactory; work that if done over the course of the student�s law school career in many or all of the student�s courses, would be inconsistent with allowing the student to receive a degree.)
F  - Fail (Representing work that does not show minimally adequate mastery of the material.)

MANDATORY PASS
In other classes, primarily the so-called �skills� courses, the following grading scale is in effect:

MP - Mandatory Pass (Representing P or better work.)
R  - Restricted credit (Representing work that is plainly unsatisfactory; work that if done over the course of the student�s law school career in many or all of the student�s courses, would be inconsistent with allowing the student to receive a degree.)
F  - Fail (Representing work that does not show minimally adequate mastery of the material.)

OTHER NOTES

Re: Composition of Enrollment:
Information on students self-identified as disabled is not available.
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STANFORD LAW SCHOOL ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2012-2013:
Note: SLS is now on the quarter system.

Autumn Quarter:
Start Date(s): Tuesday, September 4, 2012 (1L classes); Monday, September 24, 2012 (2L/3L/Adv. classes)
End Date: Friday, December 14, 2012 (Exams end)

Winter Quarter:
Start Date: Monday, January 7, 2013
End Date: Friday, March 22, 2013 (Exams end)

Spring Recess: Monday-Friday, March 25-29, 2013.

Spring Quarter:
Start Date: Monday, April 1, 2013
End Date: Friday, June 7, 2013 (Exams end)

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