Juris Doctor in Law’s trial advocacy

Campbell Law’s historically strong competitive advocacy program has reaped numerous awards in recent years, including six national titles in 2019 alone. Since 2012, Campbell Law student advocates have amassed one international championship, 10 national championships, five national runners-up, nine national semifinalists, nine regional championships, and at least 20 national individual best advocate awards. preLaw Magazine once again ranked Campbell Law among its Top Law Schools for Trial Advocacy in its Spring 2019 issue.

Campbell Law ranked fifth in Fordham University School of Law’s Trial Competition Performance Ranking (TCPR) for the 2018-19 academic year. Campbell Law is the only North Carolina law school to make the list’s Top 25.

Inside the classroom, Campbell Law has a tradition of training lawyers to be persuasive advocates for their respective clients. Standing behind the commitment to advocacy teaching is the premise that every lawyer will advocate for something in her or his role as an attorney-counselor.

“Campbell Law has a long and proud tradition of training lawyer advocates for entering the legal profession,” said Campbell Law Director of the Advocacy Program and Professor of Law Dan Tilly. “Every lawyer who graduates with a Campbell Law degree can walk into any courtroom and litigate with confidence. That is a hallmark of the Campbell Law degree. I am immensely proud to see our reputation confirmed as one of the finest advocacy training law schools in the nation.”

Campbell Law School is a unique community of diverse individuals brought together by a singular purpose—to use the practice of law in order to create a more just and merciful society. We are dedicated to creating compassionate lawyers who are fully prepared for the challenges of the real world.

Campbell Law graduates are historically successful on the bar exam. Our most recent ABA Ultimate Bar Passage Rate is 97.86% and 93.1 percent of the graduates from the Class of 2020 who attempted the N.C. bar exam in July 2020 passed.

Campbell Law is a highly demanding, purposely small, intensely personal community of faculty and students whose aim, guided by transcendent values, is to develop lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion and professional competence, who view the practice of law as a calling to serve others and to create a more just society.