Student Successes

Florida State is ranked the nation’s #18 law school for moot court. Our Moot Court Team and Trial Team consistently win national competitions and have been ranked among the nation’s best advocacy teams.

In 2022, our Black Law Students Association won 1st place in the National Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition. Our BLSA has been named National Chapter of the Year four times since 2011.

Florida State’s Student Bar Association has received the Student Bar Association Award nine times. The American Bar Association Law Student Division Award honors the best SBA in the nation.

Professional Skills Training

Law students earn academic credit at our in-house, live-client Business Law Clinic, Children’s Advocacy Clinic, Children in Prison Project, Health Care Access Project, Human Trafficking and Exploitation Law Project, Immigration and Farmworker Project, International Human Rights Advocacy Clinic and Juvenile Solitary Confinement Project. Clients in the Business Law Clinic are business and social entrepreneurs from across the Florida State University campus.

Our Stoops Center of Law & Business, Center for Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law, and Institute of Law, Technology & Innovation host programming featuring top scholars and practitioners from around the nation and enhance the law school’s training of students.

In our extensive clinical externship program, law students earn academic credit by working in one of 100+ outside law offices or courts. Placement areas include judicial, criminal, civil, legal services, appellate, business, and international.

Our rich curriculum includes a series of courses focused on litigation skills, transactional skills, legislative practice skills, and administrative practice skills.

Tallahassee

The Florida State University College of Law is located in the heart of downtown Tallahassee – the capital of the nation’s third-largest state.

Few other law schools in the nation can compete in terms of location. No other law school in Florida can provide the unique legal opportunities that accompany being located in the state capital. In addition to invaluable opportunities in Tallahassee, FSU law students have opportunities to gain experience around the globe. All of these opportunities for students to obtain hands-on legal experience translate into jobs around the world for our graduates.

Our law school campus is within walking distance of the Florida Capitol, the Florida Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, and many government agencies. Studying in Tallahassee provides students with many opportunities to gain valuable, real-world work experience that employers desire. Tallahassee offers a wide variety of clerking and internship opportunities in more than 500 law firms, numerous state and federal courts, and the legislative and executive branches of government. Our students are not limited to work opportunities in just Tallahassee, though. Many of our more than 100 externship placements are located throughout Florida and beyond.

Because there are so many attorneys, government leaders, and judges in Tallahassee, students also have many opportunities to network. Many of Tallahassee’s legal professionals regularly visit campus to teach and talk with students.