Our highly accomplished and accessible law faculty delivers a program that is designed to produce sophisticated entrants into the legal marketplace.
Alumni Network
Florida State's alumni network is truly superb, evidenced by our outstanding employment rates, extensive mentoring and alumni contribution rates. Hundreds of alumni visit campus each year to mentor and interview our students. Many additional alumni network via video conference.
Student Selectivity
Current students represent 42 U.S. states, 38 countries and 299 colleges & universities.
The 2022 entering class has a median LSAT of 165 and a median GPA of 3.83.
Student Successes
The Moot Court Team is ranked the nation’s 8th best in a 2021 ranking of the top moot court programs. Since 2010, the Moot Court Team has won 1st place in 23 national competitions and in one international competition. In March 2022, they won first place in the UCLA School of Law Cybersecurity Moot Court Competition.
Florida State’s Trial Team is ranked the nation’s 15th best in a 2021 ranking of the top trial teams. In October 2021, the team won 1st place in the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Civil Rights Competition.
In 2022, our Black Law Students Association won 1st place in the National Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition. Our BLSA has been named National Chapter of the Year four times since 2011.
In 2020, for the ninth time since 2008, Florida State’s Student Bar Association received the National Achievement Award, which honors the best SBA in the nation, from the American Bar Association Law Student Division.
Professional Skills Training
Law students earn academic credit at our in-house, live-client Business Law Clinic, Children’s Advocacy Clinic, Children in Prison Project, Health Care Access Project, Human Trafficking and Exploitation Law Project, Immigration and Farmworker Project, International Human Rights Advocacy Clinic and Juvenile Solitary Confinement Project. Clients in the Business Law Clinic are business and social entrepreneurs from across the Florida State University campus.
In our extensive clinical externship program, law students earn academic credit by working in one of 100+ outside law offices or courts. Placement areas include judicial, criminal, civil, legal services, appellate, business, and international.
Our rich curriculum includes series of courses focused on litigation skills, transactional skills, legislative practice skills, and administrative practice skills.