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While the JD curriculum is 鈥渞igorous and demanding,鈥 it would be very difficult to slip through the cracks at Texas Tech. When they start the program, students are grouped into sections that serve as a support network during 1L, and 鈥渁ll of the first-year classes have upper-level students as tutors to supplement your classroom hours.鈥 The teaching staff is also committed to student success, and maintains consistent office hours so that students 鈥渃an stop by and talk to professors at any time.鈥 A totally user-friendly experience, 鈥渢he resources provided by the school are top-notch and they鈥檝e designed everything to revolve around the student and their schedule.鈥 To top it all off, the construction of the Lanier Professional Development Center building, added 34,000 square feet to the law school building. The school is already equipped with a first-rate library, and 鈥渢he library staff is amazing and always available.鈥
When it鈥檚 time to start looking for a job or clerkship, Texas Tech maintains 鈥渁 great reputation in the Texas legal markets as producing hard-working, effective lawyers.鈥 Students choose Tech precisely for this reputation and are proud of the results. One new initiative, the Regional Externship Program, places students in other metro areas in Texas where they work 30-35 hours per week and earn a full semester of credit. A third-year student asserts, 鈥淚鈥檝e been told on several occasions that a firm would rather pick up a Tech Law graduate who knows what to do when he steps foot in the office than some Ivy League grad who knows more about theory and less about how to get the job done.鈥 While career placement is highly successful in Texas, many students feel that the school could improve its national reputation and help 鈥渙ut-of-state students find jobs in their home states.鈥 In general, students would like their top school to take a more leading role in the national legal community, urging the administration to 鈥渟pend more money to attract more nationally known . . . guest speakers and employers.鈥 One step in this direction is the Academy for Leadership in the Legal Profession鈥檚 lecture series, which has brought in national speakers such as the GC of Kia Motors.
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If you鈥檝e never been to West Texas, a student dryly describes it for us as 鈥渁 vast, treeless, invariably flat expanse of dirt. They even have tumbleweeds here鈥攍ike out of a John Wayne movie or Looney Tunes.鈥 Although it sounds a bit inhospitable, students say the advantage to Lubbock鈥檚 small city environment and arid landscape is that there are fewer distractions, which makes it easier to focus on your homework. More importantly, 鈥淟ubbock is a great environment for law students to partner with local lawyers and learn the ropes.鈥 鈥淭he Lubbock legal community is extremely strong and polite, and the relationship is emphasized over the case,鈥 one student says. 鈥淟ubbock is not the most exciting town on the universe鈥 in terms of nightlife; however, the law school鈥檚 friendly students 鈥渉ave managed to carve out a pretty decent social life. The bars here are okay, but the law students will sponsor various events and they are typically very fun.鈥
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Lubbock, TX 79409