We provide a supportive environment for Raza law students to succeed. La Raza Law Students Association of UC Davis School of Law was founded in the early 1970's. Our primary goal is to increase the number of Chicanos and Latinos in the law profession. We are the most active and one of the largest law student organizations at King Hall. We provide a supportive environment for Raza law students to s
ucceed and we serve as a forum for Raza law students to share their culture and identity with other law students. We strive to increase the number of Raza students at King Hall through various recruitment events and information sessions. Each year we host our La Raza Shadow Program, where we invite undergraduate students and local high school students to attend law school classes and presentations, tour the law school, and join us for an informal luncheon to hear what law school is really like. We also work closely with our law school Admissions Office to ensure that our recruitment efforts are reflective of our diverse state. More recently, we have collaborated with Anthony Solana Jr. and For People of Color, Inc. to host law school application workshops and to review the personal statements of students who are applying to law school. Our community outreach efforts have included community-based projects with the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation of Sacramento, bilingual workshops with the U.S. Census, and an emergency food drive for farmworkers who were negatively impacted during the 1999 citrus freeze in the Fresno area. The Lorenzo Patiño Awards Banquet is one of our annual highlights, named after the late Lorenzo E. Patiño, a 1973 King Hall graduate and the first Chicano municipal judge in Sacramento. Judge Patiño dedicated his life to empowering poor communities in the Sacramento area. He died in 1983 after battling with leukemia. The yearly banquet brings law students, alumni, faculty, staff, and the local community to honor our graduating Raza members. La Raza Law Students Association invites you to visit King Hall and tour the university to learn more about the faculty, campus, housing, and financial assistance. King Hall is ranked among the top public law schools in the country and is highly ranked by students for the quality of life. We strongly urge you to consider King Hall in your pursuit of a legal education. King Hall's distinguished faculty and amicable learning environment offers an outstanding legal educational experience.
