Raleigh: The Legal Heart of North Carolina

Our Raleigh location provides a wealth of opportunities that will enrich your educational experience. Campbell Law School students will interact with influential judges, attorneys, and policy makers as adjunct faculty and guest lecturers.

Just steps beyond our front door in this state capital and thriving city, you will enjoy internships and externships with courts, law firms, businesses, and government and private agencies.

You will experience the law as it is being created, interpreted and practiced. Opportunities for employment in the vibrant legal, business and public policy community are endless.

And in return, you will enrich the community as well, with opportunities to live out the law school’s Christian mission through legal clinics, pro bono work, live client contact and other options to serve community member in need.

A great place to live, learn and launch a career

Raleigh and the Research Triangle area are repeatedly cited in national surveys and studies as one of the best areas for starting a new career or business, for the quality of education from public schools to post-graduate studies and for enjoyable quality of life.

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Quality of life

Raleigh offers opportunities for entertainment, enlightenment and amazement. You will find a variety of museums, including the state’s museums of art, history and natural sciences. Raleigh is home to a treasure trove of performance centers – indoors and out – for every taste, from symphony to bluegrass, gospel to rock.

The arts flourish in Raleigh with the opera, ballet, musicals and local theater productions.

The area also has a full schedule of spectator sports including the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) basketball and football, the Carolina Hurricanes National Hockey League (NHL) team, the Durham Bulls, the Carolina Mudcats and the Railhawks professional soccer team.

Education and careers

The Research Triangle is one of the most intellectually stimulating and educationally focused communities in the nation. The Wake County Public School System was named among the best 100 school systems in the nation by Money magazine.

Campbell Law School joins North Carolina State University, Shaw University, St. Augustine’s College, Meredith College and Peace College in Raleigh, with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and North Carolina Central University in the Triangle as well.

Boasting the nation’s highest percentage of college graduates, aged 25-34, and the highest concentration of PhDs per capita, Raleigh is a center for thriving high-tech industries such as information technology, telecommunications, biomedicine, pharmaceuticals, medical care and computer software and hardware.