Golden Gate University School of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of Golden Gate University. Located in downtown San Francisco, California, GGU is a California non-profit corporation and is fully accredited by the American Bar Association . In December 2011, the National Jurist ranked the law school's public interest program as among the top 15 in the United States. GGU Law was founded in the autumn of 1901 as the YMCA Evening Law School, a component of the San Francisco Central YMCA Evening College. Classes were held in the YMCA's building at Mason and Ellis Streets in the... Tenderloin, which was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Like other YMCA Law Schools across the nation, it was established to provide people who worked full-time the opportunity to attend law school at night. The first graduating class in June 1905 had four students . After the earthquake, the school was conducted out of tents, and later leased space at 1220 Geary St. near Franklin Street in the Western Addition neighborhood. For the purpose of conferring the LL.
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