• There are a handful of law schools on Long Island.young lawyer image by Alexey Stiop from Fotolia.com
  
  Part of New York state, Long Island is exactly what it sounds like: a long island. The western end includes New York City's buroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, though culturally those areas are not generally considered part of Long Island. As of April 2010, the rest of the island is home to just two law schools, but the number grows if the ones in Brooklyn and Queens are counted.
  
  

Hofstra University School of Law

• Hofstra Law School is best known for its faculty's expertise in litigation, international law and family law. Its clinical program is noteworthy, offering clinics in law reform advocacy, asylum, community and economic development, mediation and securities arbitration, criminal justice, and child advocacy. It also offers a civil, judicial and criminal externship program and a variety of student organizations and journals. Its library has 534,000 volumes.
  
  Hofstra University School of Law
  121 Hofstra University
  Hempstead, NY 11549
  516-463-5858
  law.hofstra.edu
  
  

Touro College Law Center

• The Touro College Law Center is next to federal and state courthouses and incorporates work in those courts into its curriculum. It offers full- and part-time studies, with day and evening classes. Founded in 1980, Touro's law program has 5,000 alumni, 40 full-time faculty members and a library with 420,000 volumes. It also hosts a Public Advocacy Center, where students provide pro-bono services to nonprofit organizations.
  
  Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
  225 Eastview Drive
  Central Islip, NY 11722
  631-761-7000
  tourolaw.edu
  
  

Brooklyn Law School

• According to the 2008 Leiter Report, Brooklyn Law School comes in fifth in New York state among law schools with the highest number of graduates working in the country's top 15 elite law firms. It has a well-known and varied clinical program (in which 75 percent of its students participate), international fellowships and externships, and four student-edited law journals.
  
  Brooklyn Law School
  250 Joralemon Street
  Brooklyn, NY 11201
  718-780-7906
  brooklaw.edu