Stanford Law School has successfully transformed its traditional law degree into a multi-dimensional JD (joint degree).

The education facility has completed the first phase of comprehensive reforms to its legal curriculum that began in November 2006.

The multi-dimensional JD combines the study of other disciplines with team-oriented problem-solving techniques together with expanded clinical training.

This combination, notes Stanford Law School, enables students to represent clients and litigate cases while in law school.

Stanford Law School is one of the nation's leading institutions for legal scholarship and education.

The School's JD program enables law students to understand their future clients' needs through innovative courses and joint degree programs coordinated with Stanford's other top-rated graduate programs and departments.

This program effectively trains students to develop problem-solving skills through multi-disciplinary project courses, which present real-world business and policy problems.

Because students are exposed to professional practice through full-time work in a clinic they have experience in a wide range of practice areas.

Stanford Law School has inculcated several changes since 2006. In addition to revamping is course offerings, the School has modified its academic calendar from semesters to quarters to integrate with the rest of Stanford University.

"We've utilized the whole university to create a multi-dimensional legal education, because we think lawyers have a valuable role to play in helping to solve the world's problems and that calls for more than knowing how to analyze case law,” said Larry Kramer, Richard E. Lang professor of Law and Dean. “And we think we are uniquely positioned among law schools to produce lawyers who do that."

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