Home to distinguished faculty, dedicated students and cutting-edge programs with a strong sense of social justice, the school leverages its prime location with a record number of networking events. Our LLM students come to Loyola to master the U.S. and international legal system and gain fruitful hands-on experience during and after their time on campus. Los Angeles is the capital of entertainment and technology! We`re also 13 miles from Silicon Beach and home to over 500 tech startups, including Google, Yahoo!, YouTube, Buzzfeed, Facebook, Salesforce, AOL, and Electronic Arts. Loyola is also the center of the city`s largest entertainment center, L.A. LIVE. You`ll find five-star restaurants, the Regal Cinema and the Staples Center, home of the Lakers, Clippers and Kings. A short taxi ride away will be the Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium, where you can see some of the best baseball teams in the world. Just as mechanics need their tools, law students and lawyers need a mix of basic skills. These include the ability to read large amounts of documents, identify and analyze relevant information, conduct extensive legal research, produce high-quality written documents, and present effective oral arguments on legal issues. Our faculty includes a talented team of experts who help students develop their profession as the lawyers of tomorrow. Students are divided into small groups where they prepare a variety of competency-based assignments to hone some of the technical skills required for 21st century legal practice.
Just as impressive as the architectural design of Loyola Law School is the use of state-of-the-art technology. All classrooms are fully equipped with the latest audio-video equipment and teaching materials. Each class seat has access to a laptop socket. Almost all courses are digitally recorded. Professors can and do make the recordings available to students through a course website. The entire campus is a wireless Internet access point. Start your LLM at Loyola in early summer with this unique program that is free for all our admitted students. Designed specifically for our international students, the Summer Institute is an intensive program offered from mid-July to mid-August. This program teaches students how to write objective legal notes and case descriptions. Students will be introduced to other fundamental legal skills such as legal reasoning and legal research. In addition, students work one-on-one with professors, collaborate with colleagues, and study in a small class. A must-see for intellectual property lawyers and industry experts, the symposium includes a continental breakfast and concludes with a networking reception.
Taking place at LMU Silicon Beach`s new campus at 12105 E. Waterfront Drive in Playa Vista, the one-day event will include several networking breaks for source development and idea sharing. Pre-registration rates and industry discounts are available. Learn more and register with www.laipla.net/techtainment-4-0. In a “hackathon” – a neologism of “hacking” and “marathon” – participants work together to develop software products or find solutions to digital technology problems within a given time frame. “The teams stay in the same room for days,” says Sebastian Nagl, who has himself participated in many hackathons, “stocked up on food, coffee and beer for the evening. When programming, they support each other, sit together in between, have fun. In his workshop, he wanted to recreate this in times of corona – and organized the hackathon as a Zoom meeting. The field of “legal tech” is still developing in Germany, says Sebastian Nagl, who himself currently works as a law clerk at the Higher Regional Court of Munich and as a “legal engineer” in a law firm. “While information technology law has long been highly relevant due to the advancement of e-commerce and social platforms, legal technology – a modern word for legal computing – arrived here relatively late.
The basic idea: how can I solve or at least optimize a legal problem through technical applications? For example: “In the past, when a law firm received a major mandate, lawyers would first spend months combing through files for legally relevant contexts. Today, the computer does it in minutes. Reminders, fines and collection letters, for example, are “all already outside the lawyer`s sphere of activity” and have been left to legal technology companies. Among the six teams of five students each, there were not only lawyers and computer scientists, but also, for example, students of mathematics and psychology. “Because the more interdisciplinary the hackathon,” says Sebastian Nagl, “the more practical the results.” For example, one team developed software that transforms factual statements in court into predictions for the verdict, for example by examining language, word choice and repetition. Another came up with the idea of a “tool” that helps citizens find the appropriate court in this area. And a third team has developed a chatbot feature that allows users to communicate with their lawyer in advance. Instead of off-the-shelf software, the teams were able to present the jury with so-called “mockups” – wallpaper posters that showed an app`s individual screen views step by step.
“Because you didn`t have to become a hacker for our hackathon – it was clearly aimed at beginners.” As a result, the jury did not evaluate the technical quality of the digital product, but the idea behind it. Loyola Law School, with a campus designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, is ideally located in Los Angeles – a legal, technological, media, fashion and financial capital. We are the ABA-accredited law school closest to the Los Angeles District Court and Legal Scene, yet only 30 minutes from the beautiful beaches of Santa Monica and Malibu. Eager to bring law to life, our students are active in pro bono work, internships, internships and countless student organizations. Our students have also found success in moot court competitions and mock trial tournaments. These activities complement an extensive classroom experience with small classrooms, accessible teachers and a tutoring program that an external consultant described as one of the best in the country. If you`re interested in a legal education that`s anything but conventional, let us help you reach your potential. At LMU Law, we are excited about our future and want you to be part of it. Lincoln Memorial University founded the John J. Duncan, Jr. School of Law in 2009 to play a key role in developing the lawyers of tomorrow.
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