Juris Doctor

1. Successfully complete all required work:
   A) Legal Skills I, II, III, IV and Ethics;
   B) the first-year curriculum (Property, Torts, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law);
   C) the writing requirement, which can be satisfied by a seminar or course that requires a significant research paper, by the independent legal writing course, or by the completion of a note (or other substantial individual writing project) of publishable quality for any of the law reviews for which credit is given.

2. Earn a minimum of 86 semester credit hours.
   A) No more than four credit hours of Law 759 Private Practice/In-House Counsel Externship may be counted towards the 86 required semester credit hours.
   B) No more than six credit hours of "C" or higher earned through another school within the William & Mary academic community may be applied towards the law degree.*
3. Accumulate a minimum of 75% (currently, this is 65 credits) of the required credits (currently, 86 credits are required) through William and Mary Law School courses graded by letter grade.
4. Maintain good academic standing by achieving no less than a 2.0 cumulative grade point average in each semester of the first year.  Maintain no less than a 2.0 average for each upper-level fall and spring semester as well as a cumulative gpa of 2.0 at the end of each upper-level academic year. First-year students who fail to earn at least a 2.0 in the fall or the spring semester will be placed on academic probation.  First-year students who do not earn at least a 1.8 will be dismissed.
5. Maintain full-time status by earning a minimum of 20 credit hours in an academic year and a minimum of 10 credit hours in each fall and spring semester.
6. Be in residence for three academic years.

1. Be in residence as a full-time student for two semesters.
2. Satisfactorily complete a minimum of 24 credit hours.
   A) At least 15 credit hours must be earned in law school courses.
   B) Nine credit hours in courses approved by the Program director may be applied to the LL.M. degree provided a grade of "C" or higher is earned.
   C) No more than six credit hours may be earned for graduate legal research and writing projects spervised by a member of the law faculty.
   D) Although not required, Methodologies of the U.S. Legal System is recommended for LL.M. students.
3. Earn a cumulative quality point average of at least 2.0.
4. Complete a major research paper in a seminar or class requiring such, or by successfully completing Law 705 Independent Legal Writing.
5. Maintain full-time status by earning a minimum of 10 credit hours in each fall and spring semester.