Washburn School of Law, It's a National Power

Students are being well served at Washburn Law, which a survey shows is among the nation's elite

Imagine Washburn beating the likes of Notre Dame, USC Seton Hall, Georgetown, Stanford and many more national college powers-- all in one year.

Consider it done.

Washburn University School of Law beat every law school in the nation, except for one, in student satisfaction in a recent biennial survey of 170 law schools by National Jurist magazine.

Put another way, Washburn finished ahead of 168 other schools.

It placed first in the nation in faculty diversity and second in research resources and student-faculty relalions.

What does all that say? A lot: In this era, in which schools across the nation are competing fiercely for students, what those students feel about your facility and the education it provides will have much to say about its future survival and growth.

Not to worry in Topeka.

It's clear students here are impressed with the faculty and the many challenging and enlightening extras available at WU Law School-- including guest lecturers and cutting edge symposiums.

The law school also offers a new law library addition that has recently launched students into cyberspace: WU has "perhaps the most comprehensive law-related site on the Internet," says one national source, Says another: "I think (Washburn's) Web site is far and away the best legal Web site on the Internet."

In addition, to augment Topeka's naturally stimulating legal environment, the Washburn Law Clinic provides third-year law students with practical experience representing real-life clients. And Washburn students increasingly are gaining experience in mediation of disputes in state court and in the consumer protection arena.

A good lawyer is always thinking ahead. So is a good law school. Washburn's faculty, and Dean James Concannon, have that ability, plus the teamwork necessary to pull in the same direction.

And Washburn's improvement over its nearly-as-impressive fifth place in the prior survey two years ago is a strong sign that this very fine school -- a national power among law schools -- is only getting better.

More important than the rankings, though, is what they indicate: that students are being more than well served at Washburn Law School. So, too, is the community.