About the Institution
New York Law School, one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States, was founded in 1891 by the faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia College Law School led by their founding dean, Theodore Dwight, a major figure in the history of legal education. In 1904, the Law School established one of the nation's first evening divisions to provide those in the workforce, or with family obligations, a flexible alternative to full-time legal studies. From its inception, New York Law School's lower Manhattan location, in the midst of the country's largest concentration of government agencies, courts, law firms, banks, corporate headquarters, and securities exchanges, has made immersion in the legal life of a great city an essential part of the School's identity and curriculum. The Law School offers the course of study leading to the J.D. degree through full-time day and part-time evening divisions. In the fall semester 2003, the Law School began offering the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation, becoming one of only two law schools in the New York City area to offer this advanced training to tax attorneys. In 2009, the School also began offering an LL.M. in Real Estate and an LL.M. in Financial Services Law, as well as a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Mental Disability Law Studies.

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