“Educating and Inspiring Since 1912” is the theme for the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law’s centennial anniversary. The School has graduated more than 10,000 lawyers who have held significant leadership positions, such as judges; appointed and elected government officials; partners in Michigan’s largest law firms; and officers in national, state and local bar associations. The law school has planned a yearlong series of events to commemorate the School’s numerous achievements. For details, visit http://www.law.udmercy.edu/index.php/law100.

UDM School of Law Dean Lloyd Semple brings more than 40 years experience in the practice of law at Dykema, one of the top 250 law firms as recognized by the National Law Journal, including several years as a hiring partner and its managing partner.  He earned his J.D with distinction from University of Michigan and a B.A. from Yale University. He was appointed dean in April 2009.

The School of Law offers specialty courses in the School’s Law Firm Program including:

• Advising Entrepreneurs in New Business Start-ups
• Anatomy of a Business Transaction
• Children and the Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• Franchising
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation
• Pre-trial Criminal Advocacy
• Small Firm Practice

The UDM School of Law provides legal outreach services to approximately 2,100 clients through the following community clinics:

• Appellate Advocacy Clinic--State Appellate Defenders' Office
• Criminal Trial Clinic
• Immigration Law
• Juvenile Law Appellate Clinic
• Mediation Training and Clinic
• Mortgage Foreclosure Defense Clinic
• Urban Law Clinic
• Veterans' Appellate Clinic
• Veterans' Law
• Youth Justice Clinic

In December 2012, the clinics will be housed in the former historic No. 2 firehouse adjacent to the Riverfront Campus; the facility is now known as the George J. Asher Law Clinic Center in the Walter Buhl Ford III Hall.

Joint Degrees provide a legal education with opportunities to earn multiple law degrees from law schools in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Focused on understanding the intersection of legal systems in today’s global marketplace, the program includes options to earn one of four joint or multiple degrees in a condensed time frame:

• Globally Enriched J.D. Degree
• Canadian & American Dual J.D.
  Joint comparative law degree program in the United States and Canada
• J.D./L.E.D. Degree
  Joint degree program in the United States and Mexico
• Dual J.D./L.E.D. Degree
  Multiple degree program in the United States, Mexico and Canada

Senior attorneys bring their years of legal experience into the classroom at UDM School of Law, teaching courses such as Corporate Governance in an age of Bailouts, Health Law, Commercial Law: Lender Liability.

Our nationally recognized legal writing program helps student do more than take tests and fill bluebooks; it trains UDM law students to resolve problems, and to communicate these solutions in outstanding and well reasoned analysis, presented clearly and concisely.

The Dean’s Advisory Board includes lawyers, judges and others actively involved in the legal profession from across the country who regularly advise the School about how best to prepare UDM law graduates, keeping UDM School of Law current with the changing demands of the profession.

A loyal and highly regarded community of UDM Law alumni live and work throughout the U.S. and beyond, many of whom make themselves available to visit with current students at a Lunch With a Lawyer, a Preparing to Practice session, and more.

Our award-winning Moot Court program takes UDM law students to competitions across the country as they argue legal issues in environmental, international, constitutional, asylum, criminal, IP and IT law each year.

UDM School of Law is the only law school in the nation to have a mobile law office that travels Michigan and the nation assisting veterans through Project SALUTE, our Veteran’s Clinic.