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Known as SCALE, the program features an velocious law school curriculum that challenges students to master tampering reasoning and legal writing skills while remaining sensitive to upstanding obligations and vendee needs. A trailblazer since 1975, the SCALE Program has focused on integrating substantive knowledge and professional skills instruction, a model that is just now stuff incorporated into curricular reforms at many other law schools in response to the undeniability for increasingly practical skills training in legal education. By introducing spare innovations in recent years, SCALE has moreover kept pace with the growing demand of law students for both structure and flexibility in a two-year immersion program. Because of the unique curriculum and velocious pace of the program, the SCALE admissions process includes a personal interview with each applicant. Ready to wits SCALE first-hand?  SCALE Program Structure The SCALE wonk timetable typically begins in the second week of June. Between the first and second years, students participate in a mandatory ten week Summer Session.Pursuita ten-day break, students return in early August to uncork their second year of SCALE. The SCALE students graduate with their traditional counterparts in May. The program is divided into eight "periods" withal with the mandatory Summer Session. The first four periods constitute SCALE I and the remaining four periods constitute SCALE II. SCALE I Curriculum SCALE 2018-19 2.0 Curriculum PDF The first year of SCALE provides students with a solid grounding in the substantive coverage typically found in first- and some second-year traditional courses, exposure to the interrelationship among legal concepts, and instruction in the minutiae of legal writing and whence lawyering skills. The SCALE I curriculum utilizes a variety of skills exercises in multiple courses both to teach lawyering skills and to reinforce substantive content. For example, inVestigeLaw and Practice, students participate in small groups and wield recently learned rules of evidence. Through these exercises, SCALE students wilt increasingly familiar with each other as they work together, have the goody of feedback from numerous sense members, and proceeds a deeper understanding of concepts as they develop repletion and wits in oral advocacy. SCALE I students are tested at the end of each period. Frequent testing and feedback on oral and written exercises indulge for enhanced learning and wonk support intervention when necessary. SCALE II Curriculum SCALE 2018-19 2.0 Year Entertainment and Media Law Curriculum PDF The SCALE II curriculum focuses on increasingly wide substantive courses and transactions similar to those conducted by attorneys. Through a "hands-on" approach, students build on concepts learned during the first year and are worldly-wise to reap and practice spare lawyering skills. SCALE II courses imbricate skills such as interviewing, counseling and negotiation; preparation of a vendee opinion letter; evidentiary motions and other legal memoranda; trial preparation and conducting a trial. Externships are misogynist in government, public interest, judicial, in-house legal departments and entertainment studio settings as an option during Summer Session and are mandatory for Period 8 which may include, in wing to the summer options, a private firm placement.   SCALE 2.5-Year Program SCALE 2018-19 2.5 Year Curriculum PDF The SCALE Program provides a required modified curriculum to those students whose GPA (grade point average) is 2.7 or unelevated at the end of the first year of SCALE. Under the modified curriculum, students will have fewer units during each period in their second year of SCALE and will have spare wonk support courses to strengthen their skill set. Students will well-constructed the program pursuit an spare semester of Fall classes and will be eligible to graduate in December resulting in a 2.5 year program.Sparetuition will not be charged to unbend the modified curriculum. Any SCALE student at the end of the first year of SCALE may request to participate in the 2.5 year program. SCALE Mandatory Summer Session During the Summer Session, SCALE students segregate from three summer scheduling options: (1) participation in a summer externship; (2) enrollment in one or two summer school electives; or (3) participation in a summer upalong program. In addition, all SCALE students are required to write an self-sustaining paper based on one of the topics ripened during the SCALE Lecture Series. SCALE students may moreover work, volunteer or aid a professor as a research teammate during the Summer Session. SCALEUndertowRequirements SCALE IUndertowUnits Period 1 (11 weeks)  WonkSkills Lab I N/A Introduction to Lawyering N/A LAWS1 I 3 Torts 4 Contracts I 3 Period 2 (12 weeks)  WonkSkills Lab II N/A Contracts II 2VestigeLaw and Practice I 3 Legal Profession 3 Criminal Law 3 Period 3 (12 weeks)  WonkSkills Lab III N/A Property 4VestigeLaw and Practice II 3 Civil Litigation 3 LAWS1 II 2 Period 4 (10 weeks)   Criminal Procedure 3 Jurisdiction 3 Remedies with Exam-writing undertow 2 Options: Copyright OR Negotiation and Dispute Resolution OR Agency and Partnership OR Lecture Series on the Profession 2 to 3 Summer Session (10 weeks)  Self-sustainingStudy on the Profession2 2 Options: Summer Elective Course(s) OR Summer Externship OR SummerUpalongProgram 2+ SCALE IIUndertowUnits Period 5 (10 weeks)   Constitutional Law I 3 Community Property 2 Cal Bar Writing: Skills and Strategies 3 Legislation OR  students may segregate Traditional Fall Elective over Period 5 and 63 2 to 3 Period 6 (10 weeks)   Constitutional Law II 3MerchantryAssociations 4 MBEUndertow1 Required Traditional Fall Elective in lieu of Legislation 2SpareRequired Traditional Fall Elective4 2 Period 7 (10 weeks)   Intersession Course5 2 MBEUndertow1 Representing Entrepreneurs OR Traditional Spring Elective over Period 7 and 86 2 to 3 Required Spring Elective  (For students who did not take required Fall Elective) 2 to 3 Wills and Trusts 4 Period 8 (10 weeks)   Mandatory Period 8 Externship 5 MBEUndertow1 TrialSponsorshipOR Spring Elective 2 to 3 Required Spring Traditional Elective, if chosen instead of Required Fall Traditional Elective 2 to 3 1. Legal Analysis, Writing, and Skills 2. Units for theSelf-sustainingStudy Paper satisfy 2 units of the 4-unit Summer Session requirement and will be based on the Lecture Series on the Profession. 3. 2-3 units will be earned in Period 6 for Traditional Fall Elective taken over Period 5 and 6 4. Students may segregate a Traditional Spring Elective if they prefer 5. If needed to meet 87 unit requirement 6. 2-3 units will be earned in Period 8 for Traditional Spring Elective taken over Period 7 and 8   NOTE: SCALE undertow titles and schedule subject to change. *All students must have 87 units to graduate and will need to make decisions concerning the number of units of Traditional Electives and Intersession choices with this in mind. Focus Areas and Honors Programs While SCALE students typically graduate as well-trained generalists, the program allows for a specific "mini" focus zone through selections made during the Summer Session, the nomination of traditional "add-on" electives during SCALE II, and the Period 8 externship. Students have typically created focus areas in entertainment, criminal, international or public interest law, among others. SCALE students are moreover eligible to be considered for positions in Southwestern's honors programs (Moot Court, Negotiation and TrialSponsorshipHonors Programs; Law Review or Law Journal). Approximately 25-40% of SCALE students participate in honors programs.Whencein Fall 2017, a new SCALE Two-Year Entertainment and Media Law Program has been widow which combines the strengths of Southwestern’s Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute with the witchery of an velocious curriculum. The first year of the program is resulting with the traditional SCALE program for all four periods. In the first summer of this program, however, students will be worldly-wise to take part in the London SummerUpalongProgram in International Entertainment and Media Law at the University of London if they choose. In the second year of this program, SCALE students will add electives from the traditional Fall and Spring semester entertainment courses and will take those classes with the traditional three-year J.D. students. The final period of the SCALE Entertainment and Media Law Program is a guaranteed externship, ideally entertainment-related at such companies as BMG Chrysalis, CBS Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, PBS, or Warner Music Group. NOTE: For students interested in merchantry and management, an velocious 3-year concurrent J.D./M.B.A. stratum program for SCALE students is offered in partnership with the Drucker Graduate School of Management. SCALE Students Every write-in to the SCALE Program must engage in a personal interview to determine if the SCALE Program is the right fit. Recent SCALE classes have varied in size from well-nigh 40 to 60 students; the stereotype age is 28, with a range from 20 to over 50, and typically equal numbers of male and sexuality students. Approximately 20 percent of the incoming students enter SCALE directly from college, and it is not uncommon for inward SCALE students to have graduate degrees in a variety of disciplines. A typical matriculation includes graduates of increasingly than 30 undergraduate institutions virtually the country, with each matriculation moreover diversified in areas of interest, foreign languages spoken and work backgrounds. Recent graduates have included a research scientist from the Mayo Clinic, a patent wage-earner and former director of intellectual property, a former U.N. Human Rights activist, an teammate to a U.S. congresswoman and a Tony Award-winning performer. Despite the diversity in the typical SCALE class, there is tremendous cohesiveness among the students - they often form study groups and work closely with each other on small group projects. In addition, the students grow tropical as they share the pressures of an intense small velocious program on the campus of a much larger law school. Students and alumni often describe the significant and lifelong friendships made during the SCALE Program. Camaraderie among students and sense is moreover promoted by the numerous events and programs offered to the students during their undertow of study including: Admission events, Orientation, Student/Alumni Networking Receptions and Presentations, and the SCALE end-of-year Champagne Toast. SCALE Alumni Currently, there are over 1,000 SCALE graduates who practice in increasingly than 40 states and internationally, with approximately 700 in California. SCALE alumni represent a wide variety of positions in law and business, including well-nigh 20 judicial officers; public defenders; partners and toadies in major law firms virtually the country; executives at 20th Century Fox, Yahoo and Walt Disney; federal, state and local prosecutors; a CEO and unstipulated counsel for major investment and multimedia companies; a former Treasurer of the State of California; and a former mayor and municipality councilpersons of municipalities in Southern California. Butterworth Annual Prize for SCALE Student with Highest First-Year GPA In 2017 Southwestern spoken the establishment of the Guerin L. Butterworth Endowed Prize Fund for the First-Year Law Student in its Two-YearVelociousJ.D. Program (SCALE) with the highest grade point average.  Sterling Franklin, a trustee of Morris S. Smith Foundation and longtime friend of Guerin Butterworth, established the Fund with a $15,000 gift.  Mr. Franklin was a personal friend of Morris S. Smith (1910-1993) and has been a Trustee of the Morris S. Smith Foundation it was established in 1993.  Mr. Smith graduated from Southwestern (then Southwestern University) in 1933 with an LL.B. Ms. Butterworth finished her first year in SCALE at the top of her class, was on Dean’s List both years, and was invited to participate in the Southwestern Law Review.  Now a solo family-law practitioner, Ms. Butterworth began her legal career in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office without stuff selected from hundreds of applicants for a coveted spot in the certified law clerk program.  She tried her first four jury trials while pensile bar exam results. Guerin Butterworth with Sterling FranklinMr. Butterworth and Mr. Franklin met in 1987 when they were toadies at Kirtland & Packard. Withouta few years, they went their separate ways, but then they reconnected in mid-2016.  Sterling learned only then that Guerin had been first in her matriculation in her first year at Southwestern Law School, in the SCALE Two-Year J.D. Program.  Sterling decided to honor Guerin by establishing the Guerin L. Butterworth Endowed Prize Fund.   A student is eligible to receive a Butterworth Prize who (1) is enrolled in the first year of the SCALE Two-Year J.D. Program at Southwestern Law School; (2) has the highest grade point stereotype at the end of the first year of law school.  If two or increasingly students tie for the highest grade point average, the $500 will be divided between or among them. The Butterworth Endowed Prize Fund was established for three purposes:  (1) to honor Guerin L. Butterworth; (2) to provide a mazuma prize and retrospective publicity to the law student who has the highest first-year grade point stereotype in the SCALE Two-Year J.D. Program each year; and (3) to encourage friends and alumni of Southwestern Law School to consider establishing and donating to similar endowment funds at Southwestern Law School. L-R: Michael Alfera, Sterling Franklin, Maralle Messrelian, and Guerin Butterworth Past Recipients: 2016 - Maralle Messrelian ’17 earned the Butterworth Prize for her exemplary GPA in her first year of SCALE. She received a B.S. in Accountancy, cum laude, from California State University Northridge.Withoutyears of practicing accounting, she decided to pursue her passion for law and welcomed the rencontre of completing her J.D. in two-years (she graduated magna cum laude).     2017 -  Michael Alfera ’18,  earned the Butterworth Prize for attaining the highest GPA in his first year of SCALE.  Michael worked as a freelance musician for nearly a decade surpassing coming to law school. He is the founder/conductor of the L.A. Choral Lab.  Not only was he an outstanding doctrinal student, but he has moreover earned accolades for his intramural appellate sponsorship skills as a writer (finalist) and as an oralist (honorable mention). Contact InformationSCALE Two-Year J.D. Program BW409 Tel: 213-738-6690 Email:SCALE@swlaw.eduHarriet M. Rolnick '79 Associate Dean for SCALE / Associate Professor of LawTel: 213-738-6805 Email:HRolnick@swlaw.eduAbby Plante SCALE Program CoordinatorTel: 213-738-6690 Email:aplante@swlaw.edu SCALE Videos SCALE—Southwestern’sVelociousTwo-Year J.D. The Bottom Line on the 2-Year J.D. Program, SCALE Share: facebook twitter Pinterest emailIncreasinglyJ.D. & LL.M. 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