Suffolk University Law School

Suffolk University Law School (also known as Suffolk Law School) is the private, non-sectarian law school of Suffolk University located in downtown Boston, across the street from the Boston Common and the Freedom Trail, two blocks from the Massachusetts State House, and a short walk to the financial district. Suffolk Law was founded in 1906 by Gleason Archer Sr. to provide a legal education for those who traditionally lacked the opportunity to study law because of socio-economic or racial discrimination.^[4]

"SULS" redirects here. For K-12 laboratory school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, see Southern University Laboratory School.

Suffolk University Law School

Honestas et Diligentia (Latin)
"Honesty and Diligence"

Suffolk University

1906 (1906)

Private

Andrew M. Perlman

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

1,176 (2021)^[1]

153 (2021)^[1]

130th (tie) (2024)^[2]

80% (July 2021, First Time Takers)^[3]

www.suffolk.edu/law

509 Information Report [1]

Suffolk Law school has full-time, part-time evening, hybrid online, accelerated and dual-degree JD programs.^[5] It has been accredited by the American Bar Association since 1953 and the Association of American Law Schools since 1977.^[6]

According to Suffolk's Office of Professional and Career Development 2021 ABA-required disclosures, 82.8% of the Class of 2021 obtained full-time, long-term, bar admission required or JD advantage employment nine months after graduation.^[7]

Employment[edit]

According to Suffolk Law's office of Professional and Career Development ABA-required disclosures, 83.3% of the Class of 2023 obtained full-time, long-term, bar admission required or JD advantage employment ten months after graduation.^[40]

Costs[edit]

The tuition at Suffolk Law for the 2022–2023 academic year is $53,920 for the day division and $40,440 for the night division.^[41]

Frank Bailey, Chief Judge of the .

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts

Marianne Bowler, Magistrate Judge of the

District Court for the District of Massachusetts

circuit judge of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Gustavo Gelpí

Senior United States district judge of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Timothy S. Hillman

Myong J. Joun, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

Senior United States district judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia.

Richard J. Leon

United States district judge of the District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

Mary S. McElroy

professor of law, co-author of Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation

Karen Blum

professor of law, author of The Law of Independent Power

Steven Ferrey

professor of law, author of Examples & Explanations: Civil Procedure

Joseph Glannon

professor of law, co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sharing Economy

John Infranca

., chair of trustees, former chairman and CEO of Allied International Holdings, Inc

Robert C. Lamb, Jr

professor of law, former Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Renée Landers

trustee, chief justice of the Massachusetts Juvenile Court Department

Amy L. Nechtem

Michael Rustad, professor of law, co-author of Global Information Technologies: Ethics and the Law

trustee, former general counsel of Bose Corp.

Mark Sullivan

professor of law, co-editor of Workplace Bullying and Mobbing in the United States

David Yamada

35th President of the United States

John F. Kennedy

30th President of the United States

Calvin Coolidge

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

William Rehnquist

Justice U.S. Supreme Court

Stephen Breyer

Justice U.S. Supreme Court

Antonin Scalia

Justice U.S. Supreme Court

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Chief of Staff to George W. Bush

Andrew Card

consumer advocate, Green Party Presidential nominee

Ralph Nader

U.S. Senator from Massachusetts

Edward Kennedy

civil rights activist

Coretta Scott King

U.S. Attorney General

Edwin Meese III

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals

Richard Posner

Mayor of New York City

Rudy Giuliani

director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice

Robert S. Mueller III

U.S. Senator from New Jersey

Cory Booker

2012 Republican Candidate for President and former Governor of Massachusetts

Mitt Romney

host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews

Chris Matthews

, ABC (1997–2004)—Bobby Donnell is a Suffolk Law alumnus played by Dylan McDermott.^[71]

The Practice

(2006)—In the film, Matt Damon plays a Suffolk Law School night student, Colin Sullivan. Parts of the movie were filmed at Suffolk.^[72]

The Departed

, ABC (2005–2006)—Justin Mentell plays Garrett Wells, a hot-shot attorney who graduated at the top of his class from Suffolk Law.^[73]

Boston Legal

—In this 1937 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the gardener's grandson, pensioner of a wealthy family, attends Suffolk Law.^[74]

Suffolk University Law School