Valparaiso University School of Law

The Lawyering Skills Center and Law Clinic were next door, in the recently renovated Heritage Hall.

She practiced law in Chicago until moving with her husband back to Valparaiso to practice law with her father, Ira Tilton, who in nearly six decades in Valparaiso had served as a schoolteacher, city attorney, and judge, as well as head of the local Democratic Party.

His replacement was the former associate dean of DePaul Law School, Andrea Lyon, who in 1979 had been the first woman lead counsel in a death penalty case.

Since 2010, Valparaiso met declining applications with reduced admissions standards to maintain the size of the school's student body.

[16] In March 2017, the university hired Ogilvy Public Relations to handle the law school's termination or downsizing.

On March 21, 2018, the law school announced Dean Lyon's resignation effective June 1 and that she would continue to teach as a professor.

[24] According to Valparaiso's official 2015 ABA-required disclosures, 42% of the class of 2015 obtained full-time, long-term, bar-passage-required employment.

Valparaiso's Law School Transparency under-employment score was 37.4%, indicating the percentage of the class of 2015 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.

[26] Struggling graduates of Valparaiso Law School were featured in a New York Times article in June 2016.

These scholarships were contingent on the student maintaining a specific grade point average rather than remaining in good academic standing.

[32] According to Valparaiso's 2015 Standard 509 Report, 17 students transferred to higher ranking schools the previous academic year.