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View COVID-19 Dashboard »New technologies and artificial intelligence will challenge what it means to be a lawyer and change the workplace. Graduates from Wake Forest Law are prepared to leverage those innovations and also have skills and qualities that can't simply be automated.
Knowing how to collaborate through difference is essential to building partnerships and coalitions that foster change at a state and local level, where change is happening. Shaped by a small and deeply personal education, we develop agents of progress and innovation.
For more than 125 years, we’ve been developing advocates who lead by pairing compassion and perseverance with creativity and character — a combination that ensures problems are assessed with integrity and professionalism.
New technologies and artificial intelligence will challenge what it means to be a lawyer and change the workplace. Graduates from Wake Forest Law are prepared to leverage those innovations and also have skills and qualities that can't simply be automated.
Knowing how to collaborate through difference is essential to building partnerships and coalitions that foster change at a state and local level, where change is happening. Shaped by a small and deeply personal education, we develop agents of progress and innovation.
For more than 125 years, we’ve been developing advocates who lead by pairing compassion and perseverance with creativity and character — a combination that ensures problems are assessed with integrity and professionalism.
Our degree and certificate programs offer a curriculum that allows each student to design their education in a way that intentionally connects legal theory to professional practice.
Learn more about our Juris Doctor degree including dual degree and concurrent programs.
Juris Doctor (JD) »Learn more about our LLM, SJD, and Two-year JD program for international attorneys.
International Programs »Learn more about our programs for professionals who need to navigate the law, not practice it.
Professional Programs »The Legal Deac podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Each monthly episode will feature conversations with Wake Forest Law alumni, faculty, and students to see how our law school community contributes to the big legal questions our society faces today.
Listen Now »Each monthly episode will feature conversations with Wake Forest Law alumni, faculty, and students to see how our law school community contributes to the big legal questions our society faces today.
Listen Now »We tell the story of Dean Jane Aiken and reflect on the ways Wake Forest Law has adapted and risen to the challenges of COVID-19.
Read The Jurist »Wake Forest Law and Thomson Reuters are helping small business owners facing bankruptcy and the people who advise them.
Learn More »An online symposium featuring experts who assess the legal and ethical issues arising from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Make a Gift »Founded in 1834, Wake Forest University is a private university located in Winston-Salem, N.C., with more than 8,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Wake Forest as one of the top 30 National Universities for 24 consecutive years.
Wake Forest’s hometown, Winston-Salem, N.C., is a culturally vibrant city with a population of 246,000. The thriving downtown area has restaurants, shops, art galleries, museums, a minor-league baseball stadium, and greenways. It is also home to both county and federal courthouses.