Assistant Law School Dean Lorenzo Trujillo attributes some of the school's success to the quality of the students accepted. Trujillo graduated from CU’s law school in 1993. (CU Independent file/Jorian Stuckey)
For the fifth consecutive year, over 90 percent of CU law students have passed the July bar examination. This year, passage rate was 94 percent.
Lorenzo Trujillo, assistant dean of students and professional programs for CU’s Law School, said the high rate can be attributed to the quality of students in the Law School.
“The students at Colorado Law are among the highest ranking law students in the nation in terms of LSATs as well as undergraduate GPA,” Trujillo said.
In fact, half of CU’s matriculating law students are in the top 11 percent of all LSAT test takers, according to Trujillo.
Trujillo said the law program has a unique 12 to 1 student to faculty ratio, which provides a close-knit mentoring environment.
“That kind of a relationship is a wish come true for any student,” Trujillo said.
Joel Borgman, a second-year law student at CU, said he is encouraged by the success of his fellow law students because he has not taken the bar exam yet.
“Being a student at CU law, I think it’s great,” Borgman said. “I think it speaks to the quality of professors and the quality of the student body as well.”
Borgman, who is also the president of the Legal Alternative Dispute Resolution Club at CU Law, said the school brings in very good professors who are able to teach the content effectively so students are well prepared when it comes time to take the Bar exam.
CU undergraduate students say they are just as proud as those who are actually in the Law School.
Danielle Larson, a 21-year-old advertising major, said she is awed by how consistently successful the law students at CU have been.
“I’m really impressed,” Larson said. “That definitely gives our school some awesome bragging rights.”
Contact CU Independent Staff Writer Lindsay Gulisano at Lindsay.gulisano@colorado.edu.
