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Welcome from the Dean of Students

It is my pleasure to welcome you to UC Irvine’s School of Law! I am honored to be one of the founding administrators of this wonderful new law school and very excited at the prospect of working with the first several cohorts of pioneering law students.

Student Services at UC Irvine School of Law encompasses the five departments with which our students will have the greatest and closest contact during and after their three years as law students: the Admissions Office, the Financial Aid Office, the Registrar’s Office, the Students Services Office, and the Career Development Office.

All units under Students Services are guided by a philosophy of student-centeredness, which is informed by the following goals:

• To provide our law students with a supportive infrastructure that will enhance an engaged and transformative learning experience.

• To link the services provided to our students to the experiential learning taking place in the classroom, modeling for them the type of relationships we hope they will develop with their clients in the world of practice.

• To create an environment for our students that will support the Law School’s goal of training lawyers for the 21st century, by encouraging them to develop into critical thinkers and agents of change, through modeling a leadership practice that embodies self-awareness, personal responsibility, and integrity.

I hope you will early come to view the Student Services Office as a frequent destination, as you move through your days and weeks, semesters and years as law students. You will find my staff to be extraordinarily accommodating, friendly, supportive, and resourceful, always ready to meet with you and provide guidance and counsel.

Please never hesitate to ask any one of us for advice or help, and please also feel free simply to stop by to share thoughts, suggestions, and news with us.

I look forward to getting to know each of you well during the years to come and to working together with you as a group to lay the foundation for a truly great law school.

Sincerely,
Dean Ortiz

Victoria Ortiz
Dean of Students & Director of Admissions
949-824-1384
vortiz@law.uci.edu

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