Southwestern Law School

Southwestern Law School (formerly known as Southwestern University School of Law and Southwestern College of Law) is a private, non-profit, ABA-accredited law school in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, with about 870 students. Its campus includes the Bullocks Wilshire building, an art deco National Register of Historic Places landmark built in 1929. Southwestern is an independent law school with no affiliation to any undergraduate university. It has been an American Bar Association approved law school since 1970.

Southwestern was ranked RNP in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report "Best Law Schools" rankings.

The part-time program was ranked 38th in the 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report.

In 2008, Southwestern's moot court team was ranked 11th in the United States.

Southwestern's negotiation team finished first place in the 2008–09 regional negotiation competition sponsored by the American Bar Association, and placed second in the 2010 National Environmental Negotiation Competition.

According to Southwestern's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 38.3% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners. Southwestern's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 26.7%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.

According to the law professor blog, The Faculty Lounge, based on 2012 ABA data, 44.1% of graduates obtained full-time, long-term, positions requiring bar admission (i.e., jobs as lawyers), nine months after graduation, ranking 154th out of 197 law schools.