Building a new generation of lawyer-leaders

Elon Law prepares students to be exceptional lawyers through a rigorous core curriculum, a leadership program that equips students to address regional, national and global challenges, and an engaged learning approach to legal education that emphasizes innovative teaching in the classroom and an array of field-based experiences outside the classroom.

Student learning is enriched through a close association with the faculty, who provide global perspectives and a commitment to innovative teaching, scholarship and service.

Students also benefit from regular interaction with leaders in law, business and civic life, including members of the law school’s advisory board, chaired by David Gergen, adviser to four U.S. Presidents, and including two former governors, three former Chief Justices of the NC Supreme Court, and the Chair of the American Red Cross.

Students engage the law through clinics, moot court, trial advocacy, field-placement programs, and a preceptor program through which more than 50 attorneys serve as mentors to law students from the start of their law school experience.

The law school's new, high-tech facilities in downtown Greensboro, NC include the North Carolina Business Court, making Elon Law one of the few law schools in the country to house a working court.

The law school was established in 2006 and hosted a dedication ceremony headlined by U.S. Supreme Court Justice (ret.) Sandra Day O’Connor. 

Elon Law places leadership and professionalism at the center of its mission and purpose, developing lawyers with the knowledge, skill and vision to lead and to serve.