San Joaquin College of Law

San Joaquin College of Law
SJCL's main building
Motto	Lex Justitia (Law Justice)
Established	1969
School type	Private
Dean	Janice L. Pearson
Location	Clovis, CA, US
Enrollment	204
Faculty	10 full-time; 41 adjunct
Bar pass rate	29%
Website	San Joaquin College of Law

San Joaquin College of Law (SJCL) is a private, non-profit law school in Clovis, California, US. It was founded in Fresno in 1969 by Fresno County Municipal Court Judge Dan Eymann, U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger, and attorney John Loomis. The school began instruction in 1970.

In 1996, SJCL relocated to the original Clovis High School building, following a multimillion-dollar renovation. The structure was built in 1920, but had deteriorated to the point where a coyote was living in the basement. The renovation, including a new courtroom, lecture hall, and enlarged library, allowed the Law School to expand, while still maintaining the historic character of the building. There remains no comparable institution for 120 miles (190 km) in any direction in the central San Joaquin Valley.

More than 25% of the total practicing lawyers in the Fresno area are SJCL graduates, including 48% of women and 35% of minority lawyers.

San Joaquin College of Law is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). SJCL is approved by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. Its most recent bar examination pass rate for first-time takers was 29 percent.

All California approved law schools are required to calculate their bar pas rates for the preceding five-year reporting period. This data is used by the Committee of Bar Examiners to evaluate "the qualitative soundness of a law school's program of legal education." For the period ranging from August 1, 2009 through July 31, 2014, San Joaquin College of Law's five-year cumulative bar pass rate is 83%.

The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review (SJALR), published by SJCL students since 1991, circulates nationwide. It is the oldest and one of only three law reviews in the United States focusing on agriculture law.

The New American Legal Clinic (NALC) is a non-profit immigration law clinic that operates out of San Joaquin College of Law. There is both a classroom and practical component to the clinical course which is offered every fall, spring and summer session. There is a director and legal director as well as clinical staff that instruct and assist the students in completing and filing cases with the Department of Homeland Security/USCIS as well as the immigration courts. Cases are handled by students and supervised by professors. The NALC Clinic is also recognized as a source of information for media, practitioners, immigrants’ rights groups and collaboratives and agricultural and other industry employers in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California.