San Luis Obispo College of Law’s mission is to provide a quality legal education in a community law school setting with graduates who are dedicated to professional excellence, integrity, and community service.
San Luis Obispo College of Law is accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California to offer three law degree programs.
San Luis Obispo College of Law offers serious, highly motivated students the opportunity to seek a career change, re-enter the workforce, or advance their current professional career by obtaining a legal education. Most of the students at San Luis Obispo College of Law work while attending law school in the evenings. Courses are taught by practicing lawyers and judges who emphasize training in legal skills and professional responsibility. Internships and collaborative clinical programs in Family Law, Legal Line, and Mediation provide students with hands on practical experience. Our professors are knowledgeable in legal theory and practice. Small classes allow students the opportunity to get to know faculty and to build long-lasting professional networks with their fellow students.
Monterey College of Law – Photo by Nicole Barkis
Through our Mandell Gisnet Center for Conflict Management, the law school provides clinical programs that provide practical training for our students and help meet the needs of the under-served members of our community. We have partnered with the Monterey and Santa Cruz Superior Courts to develop grant-funded mediation programs that are the first of their type in Northern California, including mediation programs for small claims, landlord-tenant, collections, and neighbor disputes.
Monterey College of Law was founded more than forty years ago to serve the communities of the California central coast. San Luis Obispo College of Law continues to succeed in that mission. Our alumni are community leaders, judges, lawyers and business professionals representing the broad spectrum of individuals, organizations and industries that define the region.
OFFICERS/EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Douglas McKnight, Chair – General Manager (Retired), KAZU Radio
Dinah Sapia, Immediate Past Chair – Attorney, Private Practice, Santa Cruz
Clark Savage, Treasurer – CPA, Savage and Lucido Accountants
Leslie Cooley, Secretary – Professor Emerita, School of Psychology, Sacramento State
Charles McKee, Chair Elect – Attorney, County Counsel, Monterey County
BOARD EMERITUS
Bill Daniels – Attorney, Private Practice, Monterey
Hon. Ralph Drummond – Deceased
Hon. Richard Silver – Arbitrator and Mediator, JAMS
Michelle Welsh – Attorney, Private Practice, Pacific Grove
ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES
Patricia Andreen – Former Campus Dean of SLOCL-Attorney (Ret.)
Philip Candreva – Senior Lecturer of Budgeting and Public Policy, Naval Post Graduate School
Kate Daniels – Chief of Staff, Supervisor Mary Adams
Fred Herro – Attorney, Private Practice, Monterey
Jeff Jackson – Sr. VP, Tanumura and Antle
Jeanine Kraybill – Asst. Professor, Pre-Law Advosor, C.S.U., Bakersfield
Andrew Liu – Judge, Monterey County Superior Court
Kellie Morgantini – Executive Director, Legal Services for Seniors
Ian Oglesby – Mayor, City of Seaside
Maribel Penaloza – Public Defender’s Office, Monterey County
Seth Pollack – Professor and Director of Service Learning, CSU Monterey Bay
Sarah Cavassa, Faculty Rep. MCL – Attorney, Private Practice, Monterey
Teresa Goldner, Faculty Rep. KCCL — Attorney, Private Practice, Bakersfield
Stephen Wagner, Faculty Rep. SLOCL — Attorney, Private Practice, San Luis Obispo
SLOCL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Jan Howell Marx, Chair
Patricia Andreen
Dan Dow, District Attorney
Ron Den Otter, Phd
Micheal Dewitt
Crystal Forsher
Jacqueline Frederick
Barbara George
Hon. Douglas Hilton (Ret.)
Amy Kardel
Angie King
Sharon Lizardo
Ray Mattison
Bill Powell
Ellen Sheffer
| Mitchel Winick President and Dean |
mwinick@slolaw.org 831-582-4000 ext. 1015 |
| Wendy LaRiviere Assoc. Dean of Admissions |
wlariviere@slolaw.org 831-582-4000 ext. 1012 |
| Jan Howell Marx Campus Dean |
jmarx@slolaw.org 805-439-4096 ext. 2015 |
| Sharon L. Lizardo Academic Dean |
slizardo@slolaw.org 805-439-4096 |
| Dena Jones Campus Administrator |
djones@slolaw.org 805-439-4096 ext 2044 |