Berkeley Law offers a superb education in both established and emerging fields of law. Our intellectual property program was the first of its kind, and remains dominant more than a decade later. We were legal pioneers of the green movement, creating the nation’s first environmental law program.

Our international law experts are tackling such urgent issues as climate change, deep-ocean drilling, and privacy in an age of high-tech surveillance. And our multifaceted social justice program is a magnet for socially minded faculty and students from across the country. These are invigorating times at Berkeley Law. We’re in the midst of expanding our faculty by an extraordinary 40 percent, while holding admissions steady. We’ve overhauled our student financial aid offerings to ensure access at the front end and career choice at the back end.

And we’re busy expanding our research horizons: since 2000, we’ve created six new centers and institutes, enlarging our capacity for serious scholarship. When the University of California was founded in 1868—a decade before Berkeley itself was incorporated—the school was a frontier outpost of learning. Almost a century and a half later, UC Berkeley and the UC Berkeley School of Law still stake their claim at the intellectual frontier. We work closely with you to understand your unique requirements and develop effective solutions that provide you with a high quality service experience. U.S. Legal Support is mindful of the importance of having local expertise, immediate responsiveness and local accountability to our clients.

Our client base includes law firms, insurance companies, and corporations worldwide. Our technology-driven services and litigation support solutions cater to your needs from discovery through trial. We are one of the most selective law schools in the nation. Of the more than 7,000 prospective J.D. students who apply annually, Berkeley Law enrolls about 270. In choosing our students, we don’t stop at brilliance. We drill down for equally important qualities, including respect for others, maturity, and purpose. We also favor students who already have some interesting work experience or graduate education under their belts. Our highly distinguished faculty prepares our students for careers in a world of rapid change, complexity, and opportunity.

At Berkeley Law, we meet this challenge by offering a curriculum that provides a solid legal and ethical foundation, enriched by courses in emerging fields and hands-on experience. One of the greatest advantages Berkeley Law offers its students and faculty is easy access to UC Berkeley’s 13 other schools and colleges, 105 graduate programs, and 37 undergraduate programs. Thirty-six of those 37 undergraduate programs rank in the nation’s Top 10, as do all 105 of the graduate programs. And our connections on campus included dozens of concurrent-degree programs, joint-faculty appointments, interdisciplinary courses, and joint-research projects. he United States is far more complicated than most people imagine. It has been an issue of varying contention in this nation for the last 200 years.

Nevertheless, abortion has never enjoyed such universal protection under the law as it has for these last three decades. As it stands today, American women have the legal right to obtain an abortion in all 50 states, through all nine months of pregnancy, for virtually any reason at all. This has been true since January of 1973 when the Supreme Court declared that autonomous abortion rights are built into the Constitution, and that any legal barriers which prevent mothers from aborting their children are unconstitutional. This ruling was arrived at on the premise that the 9th and 14th Amendments, according to legal precedent established during the 1960's,

guarantees a woman's "right to privacy", a right that extends even to abortion. Law and Contemporary Problems was founded in 1933 and is the oldest journal published at Duke Law School. It is a quarterly, interdisciplinary, faculty-edited publication of Duke Law School. L&CP recognizes that many fields in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities can enhance the development and understanding of law. It is our purpose to seek out these areas of overlap and to publish balanced symposia that enlighten not just legal readers, but readers from these other disciplines as well. L&CP uses a symposium format, generally publishing one symposium per issue on a topic of contemporary concern. Authors and articles are selected to ensure that each issue collectively creates a unified presentation of the contemporary problem under consideration.

L&CP hosts an annual conference at Duke Law School featuring the authors of one of the year’s four symposia. Every day at Carr McClellan, our work is guided by two core principles -- maintaining the highest standards of integrity and ethics, and delivering first-rate legal services that achieve results. Our attorneys bring in-depth experience and excellent professional skills and judgment to each phase of representation. They know how to listen carefully to client needs and deliver effective, high-value solutions. This theme of quality also extends to our firm's long-standing tradition of community and professional service. Each year, our attorneys dedicate thousands of hours to Bay Area nonprofit and public interest organizations in addition to maintaining active involvement in professional activities. The result: well-rounded professionals who offer superior service and a genuine understanding of our clients' needs. elcome to DEP's Division of Law Enforcement.

Our Division is unique in both its structure and charge. As fully sworn and constituted state law enforcement personnel, DEP officers and investigators have authority to enforce all state criminal and traffic laws as well as agency rules. Nearly 200 employees comprise the Division, housed in five bureaus - Park Police, Criminal Investigations, Emergency Response, Operational Support and Planning, as well as the Office of Training and Professional Standards. Some of the most recognizable members are our Park Police officers who provide protection within Florida's state parks, submerged coastal and aquatic managed areas, and greenways and trails. Our officers also patrol aquatic preserves, national estuarine research reserves, and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.