Jacksonville University College of Law, Florida’s first new law school in over 20 years and the first new US law school in a decade, welcomed its inaugural class of fourteen students this week. The ‘Fab Fourteen’ students are evenly split between seven males and seven females. They were selected from a pool of hundreds of applicants and fall a bit short of the capped initial enrollment of thirty the school initially announced.
Nick Allard, the law school’s founding dean stated, “Our first students were chosen because their strong qualifications demonstrate they are able to perform well in law school, graduate, pass the bar exam, and land jobs that return the investment of time, effort and resources that they, their families, the University and the entire Jacksonville community are making in their legal education. Our inaugural class holds a unique and unprecedented opportunity both to learn and to help us to shape the future of the College of Law.”
