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What are the best law schools in California?

I have a brother who wants desperately to become a lawyer in California but neither he nor the rest of my family knows which schools he should be applying to aside from San Francisco University and UCLA.

Thank you for your time.

1. Stanford
2. Berkeley (Boat Hall)
3. UCLA
4. USC (Gould) (swaps rankings with UCLA all the time)
5. UC Davis (King Hall)
6. UC Hastings
—– – above schools are First Tier
7. Loyola Marymount (Los Angeles area)
8. Pepperdine
9. Santa Clara
10. Univ. of San Francisco
11. Univ. of Pacific (McGeorge law School)
——– – above group is Second Tier
below that, well, going there is more a matter of being accepted to any law school than any prestige thing.

Patricia Van Haren – Torrance, CA Family Law Attorney

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