Birmingham School of Law is a profit making institution, located in Jefferson County. The program leads to first professional degrees.
The School was founded when Judge Hugh A. Locke began tutoring young men for the bar admission test in 1915. Judge Locke was a prominent attorney, Judge of the Chancery Court, and President of the Birmingham Bar Association. As the number of young men grew, classes began to meet at Birmingham Southern College, where Judge Locke was a Trustee for 55 years.
Over the years the school has held classes at the Birmingham Y.M.C.A. and the Jefferson County Courthouse. The school has about 500 students each year and its classrooms and administrative offices are in the historic Frank Nelson Building in downtown Birmingham.