Mestrado em Direito (LLM) - Especialização em Litígio Civil e Advocacia

An LLM in Civil Litigation & Advocacy is an ideal choice for students interested in becoming international trial attorneys. Through this specialization, you will benefit from Loyola’s highly ranked trial advocacy program. You will learn in the Girardi building, with its several classrooms designed to replicate typical U.S. courtrooms and court facilities. You will take classes with professors with storied careers and experiences in the courtroom. Loyola is renowned for transforming students into stellar trial attorneys, and you will be no exception.

The LLM degree requires 24 total units of credit. The Civil Litigation and Advocacy Specialization will be recognized with the satisfactory completion of 17 units of prescribed coursework. This includes 17 units of required courses.

Welcome to Loyola Law School.

Loyola is a community where we are making a difference every single day, and we invite you to join us. We are recognized for creating lawyers — indeed, many of the top lawyers in the country — who have the training and the skills to succeed. As a result, we have the highest number of Super Lawyers in the Southern California Top 100. We pride ourselves on providing our students with the tools they need to be their best selves, to be lawyers with the ability to effect positive change. Loyola's LLM is a boutique LLM where you will receive personal attention such as one-on-one tutoring with the Director to ensure your success.

Your LLM at Loyola

At Loyola, we care about our students and we want them to achieve their academic and professional goals. Loyola offers unique learning and networking opportunities for our international students:

• Highly customizable curriculum allows you to choose courses that meet your interests and goals, including first-year JD courses that many other schools do not offer to international students;
• Externship opportunities help our students gain practical experience in law firms, companies, and public interest organizations;
• Moot court and experiential learning programs allow students to practice lawyering skills by assisting clients in a wide-range of cases;
• Network of more than 17,000 alumni and our Career Development Center help students obtain valuable working experience after the program and during the Optional Practical Training Period;
• Los Angeles is the capital of entertainment and technology! Our campus is located in downtown Los Angeles, close to top law firms and courthouses and only 30 minutes away from Silicon Beach.