According to NIU Law's 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 78% of the Class of 2019 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation (76% when excluding sole practitioners).

[6] According to NIU Law's 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 78% of the Class of 2019 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation (76% when excluding sole practitioners).

[7] The cost of tuition and fees at the NIU College of Law for the 2020–2021 academic year is $22,082 for all U.S. residents, whether in-state or out-of-state.

[11] Students can obtain financial assistance through the university and law school in the form of research and graduate assistantships, the latter of which typically provides a full tuition waiver as well as a stipend.

Students analyze a factual situation in order to develop a legal research strategy and learn how to locate and use secondary sources, case law, statutory and legislative history material, and administrative regulations.

Over the course of two semesters, third-year students represent prisoners in federal court who have alleged that their constitutional rights have been violated.

She also was appointed by the then-university president to serve on a three-member leadership team with the law school’s acting dean.

In addition, she held positions as associate dean for research and faculty development and director of legal writing.

Before joining the NIU faculty, Dean King practiced intellectual property law at Husch Blackwell Sanders Welsh & Katz and Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione in Chicago, Illinois, where she engaged in domestic and international copyright and trademark prosecution, handled licensing issues and represented clients in domain name matters.

She has taught Corporations, Securities Regulation, Non-Profit Organizations, Payment Systems, and Introduction to Lawyering Skills, along with seminars dealing with financial crises.

Before joining the NIU faculty, Dean Coles practiced law for fourteen years in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

NIU College of Law’s Civil Justice Clinic received the Illinois State Bar Association’s Excellence in Legal Education award the same year.

[53] In 2007, the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) presented NIU Law with its annual Diversity Award in recognition of the college’s continued commitment to diversifying the legal profession, marking the fourth time the NIU College of Law received this honor.

[55] Due to a lack of funding to meet ABA requirements, the Lewis University administration began looking for an institution to transfer the law school to.

NIU and Lewis University began working on a proposal to submit to the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) in 1979.

After passing in the Illinois General Assembly, Senate Bill 719 was approved by Governor Thompson on June 26, 1979 and signed into law as Public Act 81–37 the next day.

[61] Notable members of the Illinois General Assembly who graduated from the NIU College of Law include Representative Steven Andersson and State Senators John Curran and Toi Hutchinson.

[63] State legislators outside of Illinois who graduated from NIU's College of Law include Holly Grange,[64] Michael D. Smigiel Sr., and John Olumba.