Do Good in the World with a J.D. from HPU Law
At the Kenneth F. Kahn School of Law at High Point University, we’re dedicated to providing you with the education and experience you need to make a difference. You’ll develop a robust foundation of knowledge, skills, and values to promote personal and professional success.
As you earn your Juris Doctor, you’ll work with and learn from highly respected and accomplished faculty, including current and former federal and state judges and seasoned legal educators. Our J.D. degree will equip you to serve your clients and community with character and integrity.
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Explore Our Juris Doctor Program
Our mission is to provide a holistic law education, so you gain the knowledge, skills, and values you need to become a lawyer-leader in your community and serve with civility and grace. Your education will include a multitude of foundational courses in the most in-demand fields of law, which allows you to explore a variety of practices to find the best fit for your goals. We also prioritize experiential learning, so you'll work in the classroom, have robust real-world learning experiences, and learn from an exceptional group of guest speakers each semester.
Our new Kenneth F. Kahn School of Law Building will be your home on campus, and you'll have access to our full range of resources and support systems. To prepare you for a successful career after graduation, we provide comprehensive bar and career preparation services. When you learn at HPU Law, we go beyond helping you choose what practice you want to pursue. We'll help you understand your professional identity, and you'll enter the field with exceptional skills and inspirational character.
Discover Our Kenneth F. Kahn School of Law Building
We’ve created a state-of-the-art facility that includes three courtrooms, classrooms, our career services center, our law library, and much more.
Our Unique Academic Model
With our national reputation for excellence, we take a unique and distinct approach to preparing students for their future. The HPU Law experience educates lawyers of integrity who are leaders committed to promoting justice and serving the common good.
- Experiential Learning:
Gain an education grounded in real-world experience with extensive clinical opportunities, a guaranteed internship, and a diverse team of judges and attorneys to learn from.
- Modeling Values:
With a focus on professional identity and character formation, we’ll help you become a better person, not just a better lawyer.
- Academic Excellence:
We offer a robust curriculum that cultivates doctrinal knowledge and analytical thinking, and our faculty have more than 75 years of legal expertise to learn from.
- Premier Life Skills:
We’ll provide an education that provides practice-ready communication, negotiation, and problem solving skills.
-Chief Justice Mark MartinLike me, you’re clearly someone seeking to make a difference with your legal education. As former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, I’ve been fortunate to work with the best attorneys, legal scholars, and jurists in the nation. Through my previous work as a law school Dean and a faculty member at three other institutions, I’ve seen the great opportunity that exists to provide a legal education that is truly extraordinary. I look forward to working with a broad array of extraordinary legal scholars and leaders to build a law school of distinction—one with a national reputation for excellence and that educates lawyers of integrity who are leaders committed to promote justice and serve the common good. Come join us.
Founding Dean and Professor of Law
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Building Better Lawyers—and Empowering Better People
If you’re ready to make a meaningful difference with a career in law, our curriculum will help you develop the confidence, character, and values to thrive both as a practitioner and a person. Submit your application now and enjoy:
- A waived application fee
- A priority admissions decision
- Automatic consideration for generous, merit-based scholarships
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If you want to know more about our J.D. program, the admissions process, or life at High Point University, call or send us an email anytime.