| San Joaquin College of Law | |
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| Motto | Lex Justitia (Law Justice) |
| Established | 1969 |
| School type | Privatelaw school |
| Dean | Janice L. Pearson |
| Location | Clovis,California, United States |
| Enrollment | 204 |
| Faculty | 10 full-time; 41 adjunct |
| USNWR ranking | Unranked |
| Bar pass rate | 32% (July 2023 first-time takers) |
| Website | San Joaquin College of Law |
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TheSan Joaquin College of Law (SJCL) is aprivatelaw school inClovis, California.
SJCL was founded inFresno in 1969 by Fresno County Municipal Court Judge Dan Eymann, U.S. District Court JudgeOliver Wanger, and attorney John Loomis.[1][2] The school began instruction in 1970 on the campus of Fresno Pacific College (nowFresno Pacific University). It remained there until 1980, when the campus moved to Shields Avenue.
In 1996, SJCL relocated to the originalClovis High School building. The structure was built in 1920.[3] The renovation, including a new courtroom, lecture hall, and enlarged library, allowed the Law School to expand, while still maintaining the historic character of the building.[4]
SJCL is approved by the Committee of Bar Examiners of theState Bar of California.[5] It is not accredited by theAmerican Bar Association. As a result, SJCL graduates may not qualify to take the bar or practice outside of California.[6]
For the July, 2023 California bar exam, the school's pass rate for first-time takers was 32% vs. the statewide average of 65%. Among the twenty-three California law schools with thirty or more first-time takers, SJCL ranked twenty-first.[7]
In order to evaluate the "qualitative soundness of a law school's program of legal education," the State Bar of California requires all California-Approved Law schools to provide cumulative bar passage rates for the previous five years. For 2018–2022, SJCL's cumulative five-year bar pass rate was 76.3%.[8]
TheSan Joaquin Agricultural Law Review has been published by SJCL students since 1990, making it the oldest of the threelaw reviews in the United States focusing onagriculture law.[9][10][11][12]
The New American Legal Clinic (NALC) is a non-profit immigration law clinic that operates out of San Joaquin College of Law.[13] There is both a classroom and practical component to the clinical course which is offered every fall, spring and summer session. There is a director and legal director as well as clinical staff that instruct and assist the students in completing and filing cases with the Department of Homeland Security/USCIS as well as the immigration courts.[14] Cases are handled by students and supervised by professors. The NALC Clinic is also recognized as a source of information for media, practitioners, immigrants’ rights groups and collaboratives and agricultural and other industry employers in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California.[15]
Students and faculty of San Joaquin College of Law providealternative dispute resolution services in a freefamily law mediation clinic.[16] They meet with husband and wife in themediation setting to help them negotiate a legal agreement while avoiding the time and expense of going to court. In their role as mediators, they do not represent either party, nor do they represent the parties jointly.
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