Law is one of the three original professions. Lawyers are men or women who possess particular legal skills and pursue their careers with ethical standards.

They bear a great deal of special responsibilities entrusted into them by their clients. At the same time they owe loyalties not only to themselves and their families but to their associates, to their communities and to the administration of justice.

A person trained in the law will find a wide range of areas in which to apply his or her education. Today's contemporary lawyers practice privately in large cities or in thinly populated rural areas, in large firms or small, offering their counsel to clients of varying social and economic backgrounds. Those who work in public service may prosecute as district attorneys or defend ad public defenders. Lawyers advise and represent a wide range of government agencies at the local and federal level. Many attorneys are actively engaged in public service to the poor. Many attorneys serve as public officials in a legislative capacity or hold executive and administrative positions. Nearly all members of the judiciary who interpret the law and apply the law are lawyers. Many lawyers astride of legal practice hold executive and administrative positions in the private sector as managers of various enterprises, some are teachers and researchers.
The program of the school of law is designed to equip students with the basic knowledge and skills for achievement in many diverse areas.

A legal education involves much more than learning substantive rules of law in different areas. It develops the legal reasoning and legal methods skills of the students. Students gain an appreciation of legal and social institutions as society changes and new institutions come to be, the legally trained must be ready to meet the demands facilitated by these changes. A legal education never ends. It's an ongoing lifetime process. It's vigorous and painstaking.

The American College of Law seeks to further the spirit, the ideals, and the ethical standards of what's best in America's heritage. The law is not just a set of rules that can be self executed by a working force in the everyday world. As Oliver Wendell Holmes phased it "The law, wherein, as in a magic mirror, we see reflected, but the lives of all men that have ever been!"

Significant changes are currently taking place within the legal profession. The changes relate to the role lawyers play in modern society and to the methods now used to prevent and resolve conflicts.