Weekend JD
Imagine a part-time JD program that fits into your busy schedule.
A program combining on-campus classes with one of the leading providers of online legal education in the country. A program that features nationally renowned professors in a world-class city. Now, imagine that program meeting just every other weekend. This is Loyola鈥檚 Weekend (part-time) JD program鈥攖houghtfully designed to turn your law school ambitions into reality.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Upon graduation with a JD degree from Loyola, you will possess the following knowledge, skills, and professional values necessary for your professional success:
Knowledge
You will be proficient in substantive and procedural law, including the influence of the administrative state, political institutions, and other academic disciplines.
Skills
You will be able to:
- Utilize skills derived from participation in supervised live-client experiences, externships, or litigation and transactional practice simulations, such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, mediation, fact development and analysis, problem solving, design thinking, trial practice, document drafting, and collaborative work
- Determine your clients' needs and objectives
- Determine relevant facts and understand their relevance to your client's legal position
- Conduct legal research
- Analyze and apply relevant legal principles
- Find solutions to legal problems
- Communicate legal concepts clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing
Professional Values
You will have a solid foundation that will prepare you to use your knowledge and skills to promote truth, justice, and the rule of law. You will be able to:
- Integrate professional values
- Exercise ethically responsible judgment in your legal practice and your work within the legal system
- Understand the rules, ethics, and values of the legal profession, such as honesty, civility and work-ethic
- Know the significance of a commitment to your clients and to the legal system
- Understand the importance of using your knowledge and skills in the service to those less fortunate and in need of legal assistance
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Loyola's Part-Time Program is Ranked #13 in the Country by U.S. News & Worlds Report
91.2%
of 黑料门JD Graduates are Employed within 10 Months of Graduation
* For more information on employment data see our Consumer Information (ABA Required Disclosures)
Curriculum
The core Weekend JD curriculum blends classroom instruction with online learning. In-person classes meet approximately every other weekend: Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Sundays from 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. All online course components are offered through Sakai, a highly interactive, collaborative online learning environment.
First Year Fall Semester
Legal Writing (2 credits)
Legal Writing I focuses on analyzing and applying legal authorities to particular fact situations. Through a series of legal memoranda writing assignments, students develop their analytical and writing skills.
Civil Procedure (4 credits)
Civil Procedure provides an introduction to and analysis of the concepts and doctrines that govern the procedure followed in civil litigation.
Torts (4 credits)
Torts introduces the substantive law governing compensation for injuries to property and to the person, including negligence, malpractice, intentional wrongs, strict and products liability, and invasions of personal integrity.
Professional Identity Formation (1 credits)
Professional Identity Formation prepares students to be accomplished and ethical leaders in the legal profession and the larger community. Course objectives include recognition and elimination of personal bias and creating awareness of how diversity and inclusion of others is critical to professional development and success in the practice of law.
First Year Spring Semester
Legal Writing II (2 credits)
Legal Writing II builds on the basic writing, analysis, and research skills learned in Legal Writing I and introduces persuasive writing skills.
Contracts (4 credits)
Contracts provides an analysis of the formation, transfer, and termination of contract rights and duties, and the legal and equitable remedies available upon breach of contract.
Criminal Law (3 credits)
Criminal Law utilizes primarily statutes to examine principles that apply to many crimes, explaining the elements of specific crimes, and explores theories of punishment.
Upper Level Required Courses
Professional Responsibility (3 credits)
Professional Responsibility focuses on ethical questions in the practice of law, and examines the basic premises underlying the lawyer-client relationship and the duties assumed by the members of the legal profession.
Experiential Learning (6 credits)
Experiential learning classes enable students to perform their legal knowledge, skills and values in a real or simulated practice setting with intense, ongoing law school supervision and assessment. Examples include live-client clinics, judicial or non-judicial externships, practica, or comprehensive simulations.
Business Organizations (4 credits)
Business Organizations focuses on structure and mechanics, capitalization, distributions, organic changes, and duties and liabilities of directors, officers, and controlling shareholders. Principal emphasis is on the law as it applies to the organization and functioning of corporations. Required prior to graduation for all students that started their JD in Fall 2023 or later; highly recommended for students that started their JD before Fall 2023.
Evidence (4 credits)
Evidence is an evaluation of the rules used to present information to a fact finder in a trial. The three primary units are the rules of relevancy, the rules governing witnesses, and the rule against hearsay. Required prior to graduation for all students that started their JD in Fall 2023 or later; highly recommended for students that started their JD before Fall 2023.
Rigorous Writing (2-6 credits)
Rigorous Writing courses all provide students with the opportunity to draft, edit, polish and produce one or more advanced writing projects that are assessed by the faculty through detailed individualized feedback at each stage of the writing process.
Semester 3
Property (4 credits)
Property is the study of interests in land and personal property, emphasizing the modern law of donative transfers, estates and future interests, co-tenancy, conveyancing, and land title assurance.
Elective Courses (2-6 credits)
Students can choose an elective from nearly two dozen courses, which are offered on a rotating basis.
Semester 4
Constitutional Law (4 credits)
Constitutional Law is an introduction to the United States Constitution. Subjects include the role of the United States Supreme Court, federalism, and separation of powers.
Elective Courses (4-8 credits)
Students can choose an elective from nearly two dozen courses, which are offered on a rotating basis.
Semester 5
Elective Courses (8-12 credits)
Students can choose an elective from nearly two dozen courses, which are offered on a rotating basis.
Semester 6
Elective Courses (8-12 credits)
Students can choose an elective from nearly two dozen courses, which are offered on a rotating basis.
Semester 7
Elective Courses (8-12 credits)
Students can choose an elective from nearly two dozen courses, which are offered on a rotating basis.
Semester 8
Elective Coursework (8-12 credits)
Students can choose an elective from nearly two dozen courses, which are offered on a rotating basis.
Flexible Course Options
In addition to an array of electives, many flexible course options will be available, including summer coursework, independent study, intersession courses, and fully online courses (as many as 28-credit hours of fully online coursework).
Degree Requirements
To earn a JD degree, you must complete 86 credit hours of coursework. A minimum of 6 credit hours of experiential learning are required. Your first four semesters provide a strong, structured foundation. During the next two years you will tailor your courses, experiential learning, and course delivery to meet your goals and interests. Visit our Registrar for a complete list of degree requirements, academic calendars, and registration process. You may access full course descriptions through our student information system through guest access.
ADMISSION
Juris Doctor (JD) applicants are required to take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). LSAT registration can be completed through the .
- OCTOBER 1: Application for admission opens
- MARCH 1: Priority application deadline
- MARCH 15: Specialized scholarship and fellowship deadline
- MAY 1: Final application deadline
Outcomes
Graduates of the School of Law鈥檚 Weekend JD program have achieved remarkable success serving in government agencies, as state and federal judges, and as trial lawyers across the country. Students enrolled in the Weekend JD program will receive the same extraordinary opportunity to benefit from a quality legal education at Loyola.
Katharine Roberts
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Christian Mitchell
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Jacqueline Collins
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John Dehn
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Blanche Bong Cook
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Sarah Waldeck
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Imagine a part-time JD program that fits into your busy schedule.
A program combining on-campus classes with one of the leading providers of online legal education in the country. A program that features nationally renowned professors in a world-class city. Now, imagine that program meeting just every other weekend. This is Loyola鈥檚 Weekend (part-time) JD program鈥攖houghtfully designed to turn your law school ambitions into reality.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Upon graduation with a JD degree from Loyola, you will possess the following knowledge, skills, and professional values necessary for your professional success:
* For more information on employment data see our Consumer Information (ABA Required Disclosures)
Curriculum
The core Weekend JD curriculum blends classroom instruction with online learning. In-person classes meet approximately every other weekend: Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Sundays from 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. All online course components are offered through Sakai, a highly interactive, collaborative online learning environment.
Flexible Course Options
In addition to an array of electives, many flexible course options will be available, including summer coursework, independent study, intersession courses, and fully online courses (as many as 28-credit hours of fully online coursework).
Degree Requirements
To earn a JD degree, you must complete 86 credit hours of coursework. A minimum of 6 credit hours of experiential learning are required. Your first four semesters provide a strong, structured foundation. During the next two years you will tailor your courses, experiential learning, and course delivery to meet your goals and interests. Visit our Registrar for a complete list of degree requirements, academic calendars, and registration process. You may access full course descriptions through our student information system through guest access.
ADMISSION
Juris Doctor (JD) applicants are required to take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). LSAT registration can be completed through the .
- OCTOBER 1: Application for admission opens
- MARCH 1: Priority application deadline
- MARCH 15: Specialized scholarship and fellowship deadline
- MAY 1: Final application deadline
Graduates of the School of Law鈥檚 Weekend JD program have achieved remarkable success serving in government agencies, as state and federal judges, and as trial lawyers across the country. Students enrolled in the Weekend JD program will receive the same extraordinary opportunity to benefit from a quality legal education at Loyola.
MEET SOME OF OUR EXCEPTIONAL FACULTY
Weekend JD program courses will be taught by members of Loyola鈥檚 full-time faculty, who are accomplished scholars and nationally recognized leaders in their fields.