New York Law School

In 1894, the same year bottled Cola-Cola hit the marketplace and motion picture film was granted a patent, the Evening Division of New York Law School was founded. New York Law School was first established in June of 1891 by a group of faculty and students of Columbia Law School who had a disagreement with the school over teaching methods and decided to found their own law school. New York Law School held its first classes on October 1, 1891, in the Equitable Building in Lower Manhattan (NYC). By 1892, after only a year in operation, it was the second largest law school in the United States and by 1904 had became the largest law school in the United States.