The Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario is located on the campus of one of Canada's largest and most beautiful universities in London, Ontario, which is situated midway between Toronto, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. Current enrollment is approximately 500 full-time students taught by 33 full-time and 39 part-time faculty. Along with the curriculum of first-year courses, all of our students take mandatory upper-year courses including Civil Procedure, Corporate Law, and three of Administrative Law, Evidence, Income Taxation, Public International Law, and Trusts. The breadth of our core curriculum is enhanced with Areas of Concentration in Business Law, Criminal Law, Taxation, and Information & Technology Law, which allows students to attain real depth in a particular subject area. Western's faculty members are regarded as among the finest legal researchers and teachers in the country. They are widely published, and are often quoted by the courts and others. Many are the acknowledged experts in their areas and have drawn international attention. Our students have had tremendous success at securing positions with the premiere firms in Toronto, Canada's financial capital. All of the top Toronto firms recruit from our crop of outstanding graduates every year. Western Law can boast the highest articling placement rate of any Canadian law school with 99% - 100% of grads who sought articles being placed over the past four years. Our success is due in large part to our students -- we start with the best. Fewer than 1 in 4 students who apply are offered a place at Western Law. Those selected are motivated and mobile. Our alumni, who now number over five thousand, can be found in every imaginable occupation, in virtually every corner of the globe. Since many of our students are from the Toronto area, and most already travel there for interviews, they are conveniently positioned to interview with those New York firms that make Toronto one of the stops in the recruiting process. In addition to the practical skills gained in a classroom setting, many of our students graduate with significant litigation experience due to their participation in the Community Legal Services clinic. In any given year, more than a third of our students participate in the clinic. The clinic is unique in that it allows students to conduct ligitation from its inception until the end of a trial and subsequent appeals. Although students run their own cases, the clinic has a sufficient number of lawyers who can accompany students to court as second chair. It is not unusual to have argued a number of full-blown trials, on their own, during a student's law school experience. Another exceptional program designed to enhance practical skills is our Advocacy Program which includes client counselling, trial advocacy and appellate advocacy. Some of these competitions are for academic credit.
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