BUIES CREEK - "The Charter Class of the Campbell College School of Law is as unique in its make-up as the program it will embark on in September," according to Dean F. Leary Davis, head of the new school.
The 90-member class of fledgling lawyers, which will soon crowd onto the second floor of Kivett Hall here, runs the gamut from undergraduate students to middle-aged businessmen to retired civil servants.
The median age of the student body is 25 with a wide span of years on either side.
The program, sanctioned a year ago by the N.C. Baptist State Convention, is designed to produce a crop of general practice lawyers who will remain in the small rural communities of the southeast rather than migrating to the more lucrative practices usually found near large cities.
"It is our hope and our intention to formulate a unique program to educate lawyers who will be prepared from the outset to serve their communities in the general practice of law," Davis said in a recent interview.
Throughout our remarkable fifty-year journey, Campbell Law has remained true to its core principles while offering students a cutting edge legal education. In this guide, you will find local newspaper clippings and other ephemera that tell the story of Campbell Law School's beginning at Campbell University's home campus of Buies Creek to the move to our current home in downtown Raleigh. It is an excellent resource for those looking for research on the the Law School's early history, as well as for those wanting to learn more about the school itself.
First-year law students take notes in 1L Orientation.
Students studying the library, 1991.
Professor Margaret Currin. Professor Currin's son, and former Dean F. Leary Davis pose with a picture taken of them during the registration of the charter class in 1976
The addition of Wiggins Hall to Kivett Hall began in 1991 and was completed in 1993.
