WSU Law School Faculty
Your legal career starts in law school and the faculty at WSU is devoted to helping you to prepare for your future. Our law school faculty can help to guide you throughout your education with one on one personal attention delivered in small classes with a focus on your success.
Western State has their open door policy so you are able to go see a professor whenever they are on campus and a lot of professors will let you email them or some will even let you call them on their cell phones or at home. I think it’s very important especially with the workload you are given first year; it’s essential that you talk to your professors. And professors will encourage it and they’re excited when you come and speak to them. And they are really supportive and they want you to learn so they encourage that you come excited that you come to their office hours.
One of the biggest things, and I’ve taught at other law schools, so one of the big things that I know is the willingness of this faculty to help the students that are particularly those that are struggling, and to spend time with them. That to me is the hallmark of this law school.
We have a good smattering of Harvard Law School graduates, major law schools, University of Illinois, University of Virginia, Stanford, Bolt I think, so they’re good and smart, and they are hard working, and they focus very hard on bringing a quality experience to the classroom.
The faculty is great. I am still in contact with almost every professor that I had while I was in school. I ask them questions all the time. I email them; I keep them updated on how I’m doing. And the only reason I do keep them updated is because they care. So, it feels nice. Definitely diverse backgrounds, a lot of them are scholars. You see the Harvards and the Yales and all the top schools, you know, under their names, and you, a lot of them have practiced, they’ve been in the field for along time, so they definitely have the practical approach on top of the scholarly approach.
Absolutely accessible, even more so than I would have ever imagined when I decided to come here. Doors open, roaming the halls, I mean, and I say that, you know, full open-heartedly and honestly that that was one of the things that made it such a good experience was that they were approachable and they made it known that it was easy to come to them for anything.
I felt that that the school was challenging but appropriately so, because it made confident lawyers, lawyers who could handle stress and work well under pressure which is key in this business, lawyers who had a good sense of legal writing and analysis which is key, and a fundamental understanding of just several aspects of the law, whether it be criminal, civil, you know, property, you know, personal injury – that sort of thing, and I do, I feel that every single class that I had here made me get the jobs I’ve had today and has made me, I think, have an edge over other lawyers who didn’t come to this school and get that type of education.
One of the nice things about Western State is that the professors are accessible and that starts with applicants at the school. Also uncommon with most law schools where professors actually meet with people who want to meet with them and talk about the program. Most law schools, the professors are not going to become involved with you until you get into the school. But here, many of the applicants will have already met and talked to the professors.
So having access to faculty to talk about what you’re confused about or getting as sense of how well you are doing in the classes I think is an important thing, and it is one of the things that I think makes us a good school for our students to come to.