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With a “highly supportive administration and faculty, who are always willing to work with students to help them excel and provide support/flexibility for part-time students who work full-time,” USF students say that “faculty are more than accessible—they respect students as lawyers in training rather than underlings.” Some feel the 1L curve “is a little bit too strict for our academic reputation and lends to professors grading more harshly than necessary,” but they note that the overall academic experience can be described as “intellectually stimulating.”
Students do wish that the administration would focus a bit more on “being open and transparent about how the tuition money of students is spent and managing costs, so students are not burdened with heavy debt,” and several students call for a more practical approach to law that deals less with the “Socratic method of teaching, exam taking, and grading curve,” wishing that USF would focus more on “preparing students from the very beginning on taking and passing the CA and other Bar Exams successfully” and “preparing students for actual practice of law such as research, procedure, writing skills, client skills, business skills, etc.”
Some students note that “the school recently got rid of the Child Advocacy Clinic, led by the amazing and well-respected Professor Fitzsimmons.” But the school replaced it with the course/externship hybrid focused on child and family law, and the school also recently added a new Immigration and Deportation Defense Law Clinic. In addition, “Public Interest Law is really big and the school does a lot in helping the surrounding communities. Also the teachers here are great. Most of them are amazing with very diverse backgrounds. Every teacher I have had really wants you to do well and understand the subject and they go out of their way to be there when you need them to.” Another student adds, “Many of my peers are successfully pursuing business law careers,” which is no doubt helped by the fact that “USF Law is located near the tech capital of the world, with currently the strongest economy in the country.”
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