Your application must include a personal statement. Your personal statement gives us a chance to learn more about you than may be apparent from the facts and figures included in the remainder of your application. Your personal statement will help us further evaluate your potential to succeed at Alabama Law and in the legal profession, your potential to contribute to the rich intellectual life of the Law School community, and your commitment to using your legal education to serve the public good. Your personal statement will also serve as a writing sample, allowing us to evaluate clarity, persuasiveness, thoughtfulness, organization and other writing skills. The subject matter of the essay is entirely up to you. For inspiration, you might consider addressing lessons that you have learned based on your unique life experiences or reasons that you have chosen to pursue a legal career. Again, however, the substance of the essay is entirely within your discretion. Please limit your personal statement to 2-3 pages, double space, and use at least 11-point font. Artificial intelligence may not used to draft or generate your personal statement.

If there is any information in your application you wish to clarify (particular grades, standardized testing scores, gaps in employment, etc.), you may provide that information here. It is recommended that you provide explanations or further details if you have any grades lower than a C on your transcript(s).

Please submit a résumé that includes any employment, honors, activities, and community and volunteer service. If you have had multiple employment experiences, include at least your last three positions of full-time employment, including summer employment.

1. The University of Alabama has vital interests in the safety of its campus and the fitness of its students to be members of the University community. The Law School shares these interests, and, as a professional school, it has a heightened concern for the behavior, honesty and integrity of its students. Therefore, the Law School may deny admission to, or revoke admission of, any applicant whom it deems to be detrimental to these interests. To assist in that consideration, the Law School requires applicants to provide certain information about their disciplinary or criminal history. A criminal or disciplinary history is not an automatic bar to admission. Any admission decision relating to a criminal or disciplinary disclosure is made on a case-by-case basis considering the entirety of the file. Qualifications for Bar Admission. Earning a JD degree from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association, like the University of Alabama School of Law, qualifies a person to apply for admission to the state bar where they intend to practice law. In addition to a bar examination, there are character, fitness, and other qualifications for admission to the bar in every U.S. jurisdiction. Applicants are encouraged to determine the requirements for any jurisdiction in which they intend to seek admission by contacting the jurisdiction. Addresses for all relevant agencies are available through the National Conference of Bar Examiners. In addition, you are encouraged to review the additional information here concerning your degree program and state requirements for professional licensure: https://www.ncbex.org/jurisdictions.

You are required to promptly inform the Law School if there is any change to any of the responses below in this application, including new or additional information, whether the same occurs during the application process or, if admitted, at any point during your time as a student at the University of Alabama School of Law.

Conduct Questions. If you answer "yes" to any of the following questions, you must attach an addendum describing the dates, circumstances, and any resolution. If there are multiple reasons to say "YES" to any of the questions, you must identify each situation. You are also invited to provide information about how you believe you can positively contribute to the campus community despite any prior issue(s) disclosed (e.g., evidence of rehabilitation, reflection, community service, etc.)

2. Have you ever been disciplined, warned, reprimanded, placed on academic probation or disciplinary probation, suspended, expelled, removed (by trespass warning or otherwise), or requested or advised to withdraw, by any college, university, or other postsecondary institution or are you currently the subject of any pending or expected disciplinary action by an academic institution?

3. Have you ever received a restraining order, protective order, no contact order, or similar directive to avoid contact with a group or individual? If you have received a mutual no contact order as a supportive measure, please indicate that in your statement.

4. Have you ever been dismissed or discharged due to job-related misconduct, or are you under a pending investigation (internal or external) regarding job-related misconduct?

5. Have you ever been subject to disciplinary sanctions while holding a professional license or are charges pending, which could result in such an outcome? (Check "No" if you have never held a professional license.) For the following questions, you are under no obligation to disclose offenses in which you were found to be a juvenile, granted youthful offender status, or where the offense was expunged for purposes of admission. However, many state bars, including Alabama, require disclosure of juvenile, expunged, and/or sealed records for assessing character and fitness for admission to the bar. Thus, admission to the University of Alabama School of Law does not indicate that you will be admitted to the practice of law in any particular jurisdiction, and you should consider such bar requirements for any jurisdiction in which you intend to seek admission before moving forward. Please note that expungement and dismissal are distinct and all offenses that have been dismissed must be disclosed.

6. Have you ever been cited for, arrested for, charged with, or convicted of any crime other than a minor traffic violation? You should disclose this information even if the charges were dismissed or you were acquitted, the conviction was stayed or vacated, or you were told you need not disclose this information. Do not include parking violations and speeding citations of 20 mph or less over the limit.

7. Have you ever been cited for, arrested for, charged with, or convicted of any traffic violation that was alcohol- or drug-related? You should disclose this information even if the charges were dismissed or you were acquitted, the conviction was stayed or vacated, or you were told you need not disclose this information.

8. Are you currently the subject of pending criminal charges or an indictment, or subject to arrest for a crime? Appeal. The Law School will notify an applicant if he or she is denied admission based solely on the conduct questions 3-8 above. In that particular case, the applicant may appeal the denial by providing a written statement of appeal to the Law School within seven calendar days from when the denial was received. The appeal statement should be directed to the Associate Dean of Admissions at the Law School.

Fall 2027 JD Program University of Alabama School of Law

Law School Admissions Office

Box 870382

Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0382

205.348.5440

admissions@law.ua.edu

www.law.ua.edu

An applicant must submit the following:

Dated and signed School of Law application.

You may apply to the University of Alabama School of Law by completing an electronic application through the Law School Admission Council (LSAC). www.lsac.org.

$40.00 nonrefundable application fee.

The fee may be paid online through LSAC. We will waive the application fee for the following: 1) veterans and current members of the United States military; 2) current or former Teach For America and AmeriCorps members; and 3) current and former Peace Corps volunteers. To request any of these waivers, send an email to admissions@law.ua.edu.

Personal Statement.

Your application must include a personal statement. Your personal statement gives us a chance to learn more about you than may be apparent from the facts and figures included in the remainder of your application. Your personal statement will help us further evaluate your potential to succeed at Alabama Law and in the legal profession, your potential to contribute to the rich intellectual life of the Law School community, and your commitment to using your legal education to serve the public good. Your personal statement will also serve as a writing sample, allowing us to evaluate clarity, persuasiveness, thoughtfulness, organization and other writing skills. The subject matter of the essay is entirely up to you. For inspiration, you might consider addressing lessons that you have learned based on your unique life experiences or reasons that you have chosen to pursue a legal career. Again, however, the substance of the essay is entirely within your discretion.

Please limit your personal statement to 2-3 pages, double space, and use at least 11-point font. Artificial intelligence may not used to draft or generate your personal statement.

Letter of Recommendation.

At least one letter of recommendation is required. The best letters are those from professors, employers, or others who assess your analytical abilities, writing, and intellectual development.

Résumé.

Please submit a résumé that includes any employment, honors, activities, and community and volunteer service. If you have had multiple employment experiences, include at least your last three positions of full-time employment, including summer employment.

Supplementary page providing details if you answer "Yes" to any portion of the Disciplinary and Criminal History section.

If you have questions about any part of this section, please call the Law School Admissions Office. You should be aware that state bar association may require disclosure of all criminal matters and may consider these matters in bar admissions decisions. Earning a JD degree from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association, like the University of Alabama School of Law, qualifies a person to apply for admission to the state bar where they intend to practice law. In addition to a bar examination, there are character, fitness, and other qualifications for admission to the bar in every U.S. jurisdiction. Applicants are encouraged to determine the requirements for any jurisdiction in which they intend to seek admission by contacting the jurisdiction. Addresses for all relevant agencies are available through the National Conference of Bar Examiners. In addition, you are encouraged to review the additional information here concerning your degree program and state requirements for professional licensure: https://www.ncbex.org/jurisdictions.

LSAT Score or GRE Score.

The Law School requires that you submit an LSAT OR GRE Score. If you have an LSAT score or plan to take the LSAT, you must indicate this on your application and your highest LSAT score will be the primary score used in the admissions decision. For the GRE score, you must request an official GRE score report from Educational Testing Service (ETS) that includes all scores from the last five years. Please indicate the Law School as a recipient of your test scores. The Law School GRE school code is 4627. For more information on submitting official score reports, please visit the ETS website. The Law School accepts GRE scores that are no more than five years old. Although the LSAT is not required to apply to the Law School, a score may be necessary for an applicant to apply to another law school as an incoming first-year student or to apply to transfer to another law school after the first year.

Completed Credential Assembly Service (CAS) file.

An applicant must register for the Credential Assembly Service and the file must be complete, with all transcripts from universities and colleges attended and at least one letter of recommendation, before the Law School's Admissions Committee will review the application. It is the applicant?s responsibility to register with CAS and to ensure that all transcripts, fees, and letters of recommendation have been received by LSAC. If you received your degree from an institution outside the U.S., you also must register for the Credential Assembly Service authentication and evaluation service. LSAC provides an applicant with status information via the LSAC website at www.LSAC.org.

TOEFL or IELTS Score if English is not your primary language.

If you are an international applicant and English is not your primary language, an official TOEFL score report must be sent from Educational Test Service (ETS) or an official IELTS must be sent to LSAC to include with your Credential Assembly Service. The score must be no more than 2 years old.

Please remember that your file remains incomplete until all of the above materials, including the CAS report and GRE score(s), have been received by the Law School. The University of Alabama School of Law has no specific application priority deadlines or cutoff dates and will begin admitting applicants early in the process, before November or December of the preceding year. Seats are filled as the admissions season progresses.

If you are not a citizen of the United States, please attach a copy of the front and back of your resident card or your visa, whichever is applicable. If you require a visa to study at the Law School, you must provide any required visa and immigration documents to participate in your course of study. If you are unable to timely obtain and/or provide any required visa and immigration documents, you will be unable to enroll, or will be removed from courses in which you have already enrolled, and will need to re-apply for admission to a future term.