U.S. News & World Report (2008) ranks our environmental law program 10th in the nation.

Overall, U.S. News & World Report (2008) ranks us in the top tier of American law schools in terms of academic reputation (at 49).

Our faculty regularly ranks in the top 30 most downloaded law faculty on the Social Science Research Network, with our tax faculty in the top 15.

Law schools nationally use books written by our faculty in areas such as Endangered Species Law, Energy Law, Environmental Law, First Amendment Law, International Intellectual Property, Law and Economics, Law and Religion, Ocean and Coastal Law and Tax Law.

Our current students represent 38 states, 14 countries and 219 colleges and universities, including: Brandeis, Cornell, Duke, Dartmouth, Emory, George Washington, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Mount Holyoke, Notre Dame, Princeton, Stanford, Texas, U.C.L.A., U.N.C.-Chapel Hill, U. of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, Virginia and Yale.

Twenty-five percent of the students in our 2007 entering class have LSAT scores of 162 or higher and the average LSAT is 160. The average GPA is 3.5.

We receive more than 15 applications for every seat in our entering class.

Hispanic Business magazine has again ranked us the nation's 6th best law school for Hispanic students.

In November, our Mock Trial Team won 1st place in the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Trial Advocacy Competition held in Miami, Florida.

This past year, our Moot Court Team won five best brief awards in national competitions in religious freedom, tax law (two competitions), civil rights and environmental law.

Our law school publishes three student-edited journals that have all been rated high on "impact factor" by Washington and Lee University: the Florida State University Law Review; the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law; and the Journal of Transnational Law & Policy.

Ninety-nine percent of the graduating class of 2007 was placed within nine months of graduation.

Our graduates have placed first in the state in four of the last five administrations of the Florida Bar Exam.

PreLaw magazine ranks us the nation’s fourth “Best Value” law school, based on employment rate, bar passage and tuition.

Second- and third-year students gain valuable first-hand experience by clerking with one of Tallahassee’s many state and federal courts, the Florida Legislature, or in one of Tallahassee’s 450 law firms.

Graduates work in 47 states and in major markets including Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Graduates also work in prominent firms in all Florida cities.

We are acquiring, as an addition, a 50,000 square-foot modern courthouse directly across the street from our present facilities. Among other things, this acquisition will give us one of the nation's finest facilities for legal advocacy training.