According to the University of Arkansas School of Law's ABA-required disclosures, 74% of the Class of 2022 had obtained full-time, long-term employment nine months after graduation.

The School met initially in the bottom floor of Old Main, and was approved by the American Bar Association two years later, in 1926.

The 1930s saw a move to the Chemistry Building just to the southeast of Old Main, and then into Waterman Hall, the first dedicated law school construction project, in the 1950s.

The latter half of the 20th century saw additions added to Waterman Hall to form the Robert A. Leflar Law Center.

Silas H. Hunt, a World War II veteran who had been wounded in the Battle of the Bulge and following the conclusion of the war had completed an undergraduate degree in English at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College applied to multiple law schools in 1947.

For a semester, Hunt attended the law school until succumbing to illness, and dying in a veteran's hospital on April 22, 1949, in Springfield, Missouri.

[10] Following Hunt's successful entry into the law school, five more African-American students applied and were accepted into the law school: George Williford Boyce Haley, who went on to become a United States Ambassador to The Gambia; Wiley Branton, who served as dean at the Howard University School of Law; Jackie L. Shropshire; Chris Mercer; and George Howard, Jr., who later became the first black United States district court judge in Arkansas.

In 1958 Branton argued Cooper v. Aaron in front of the Supreme Court, which forced the integration of Little Rock Central High School.

[39] According to the University of Arkansas School of Law's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 68.18% of the Class of 2013 had obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.

[42] The University of Arkansas School of Law places graduates in all nine geographic regions according to the Association for Legal Career Professionals.

[45] The table to the right represents regional placement, with percentages, for University of Arkansas School of Law graduates.

[6] They are law firms, business and industry, government, judicial clerkships, academia, and public interest.

[6] The table to the left represents the fields of placement, with percentages, for the most recent class from the University of Arkansas School of Law.