Arizona Summit Law School

I am currently in my last year of law school and it has been an amazing but rigorous experience. The faculty and professors are the best. The curriculum is challenging to say the very least but I truly believe they have equipped me to be successful on the bar exam when I return to Texas. I am thankful for the opportunity that I was given to study and master the law. President Lively, and Dean Willrich are invested in the success of the students. I would recommend my school to anyone who is interested in attending law school. Moreover, I believe Summit will overcome the negative publicity and get back to its roots. High bar passage rate!

Phoenix School of Law has been a challenge far beyond what I thought I would. I am impressed by my professors and the other students I attend class with. It is amazing how available the professors make themselves to the students and how willing they are to work with us to make sure we are practice ready when we graduate. The Center for Professional Development has been amazing also. They have worked with me to make sure my resume is competitive, my cover letters are good and I am interview ready. When I graduate I firmly believe I will be prepared to pass the Bar and be able to get a job!

This school had a great reputation when it was PSL, but as Arizona Summit it has slowly been driven into the ground. The concept of combining bar tested courses is horrible. They will not allow outside bar companies to advertise on campus so you are stuck with their "myBar" program, which is clearly not working based upon the abysmal passage rate and the administration is slow to respond to your inquiries. The building is beautiful and hi tech, however the quality of education does not live up to what is purported in the brochures. When you speak to lawyers in Phoenix and surrounding cities they usually have nothing good to day about ASLS. In fact many places are reluctant to hire Summit grads. Save your future and go to a better school.

Nice building, but beware of this program. This a for profit institution managed by a group named Infilaw from out of state. Tuition is over 40K/year and the bar pass rate as of the most recent year was around 30%. The worst in Arizona by a significant margin, and I believe the worst in the entire US. It prays on those who don't know any better. From this school you will receive the largest average debt load, around 290K, and then a 1/3 shot at passing the bar, after paying students 10k who were likely to fail, and then a 1/5 shot at landing a law job, do you like your chances? Retake the LSAT and go to one of the State schools, you'll thank me later. The two state schools in Arizona are very competitive nationally and place much much better instate. Some Summit students will come out alive and land decent jobs, but they are the exception. On a positive note, the facilities are great and the location is great. I think when ASU moves across the street Summit will struggle a little bit more.

This school needs to remain unaccredited and eventually closed down permanently. (Like it's sister school Charlotte School of Law last year for very similar conduct.) I believe the school's original mission to bring more diversity into the legal career field, and to help the underserved, was clouded by greed. The school targeted and admitted student with low LSAT scores because they didn't care if were capable of passing or not so long as they got several semesters of federal student aid checks out of the deal. Alot of capable student's were robbed of what they worked so very hard for. The whole infilaw system should be dissolved or no longer backed by the ABA. The school changed it's GPA requirements without proper notice. Making it higher each time, not a problem, because higher GPA means higher bar passage rates.The issue is there was no notice and no senority clause for student's who had come in under one GPA requirement and were close to graduating. There was no grace period to allow them a opportunity to reach the new GPA status, just mass expulsions from 1L's to 3L's. There were four revised student handbooks in two year period. For the first time ever in 2017 they gave students individual academic advisors, no student disability services, no legitimate accomedations, no real career planning advisors, they used several tactics to make transfering nearly impossible; intentionally released grades late each semester, making students miss application deadlines. Some of the most respected and highly esteemed professors all left at once in waves. Many students who are unable to finish here are left with alot of useless non-transferable credits from non-traditional hybrid classes that lasted 4-6 weeks, and astronomical debt. The school was very unorthodox and over-priced. Alot of favoritism and discrimination regarding grading, internship/professional opportunities. The school was all smoke and mirrors. If you were able to succeed under these conditions I am happy for you. But don't judge others who were not able. It wasn't fair to ask them to because the conditions were against ABA's standard. The school was out of compliance for a long time.