Whittier Law School

Whittier Law School is a law school in Costa Mesa, California. Founded in 1966, it is a fully accredited ABA law school in Orange County, California. A private university, it is part of Whittier College. The Law School was originally founded as the Beverly College of Law in 1966, and located in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles’s Westside. It was a private, nonprofit educational institution intended to meet the growing need for a law school in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. In 1974, the Whittier College Board of Trustees voted to merge the Beverly College of Law into Whittier... College. In 1975, the Law School became known as the Whittier College School of Law and later as Whittier Law School. In 1978, the American Bar Association granted Whittier Law School provisional accreditation. In response to a significant gift to the Law School, the Hancock Park building was dedicated as the Ross McCollum Law Center during a ceremony at which Supreme Court Associate Justice Byron R. White presented the major address. In 1985, Whittier Law School was fully accredited by the American Bar Association; in 1987 it became a member of the Association of American Law Schools .
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