The JD Flex curriculum is designed to ensure students have a strong foundation across legal subjects, are prepared for professional success, and pass the bar exam.

In the first two years of the program, you develop legal knowledge and critical thinking skills in core courses while exploring through electives what advocacy and lawyering looks like in different settings. If you select one of the specialized career tracks, you take courses that dig more deeply into your chosen practice area. You engage in a close analysis of case studies and discussions of today’s most pressing legal issues.

In your third year, you put your knowledge into practice with clinical or experiential opportunities that work with your schedule and place you at the center of real cases and clients. Your professional growth is guided by clinical professors or practicing attorneys who teach you the practical skills of lawyering and mentor you throughout the process.

In your fourth year, you gain a head start in your bar preparation with coursework designed to cover every component of the bar exam. The bar preparation courses hone in on the specific subjects tested in the bar exam and sharpen your multiple-choice and essay-writing skills.