Company Overview

New York Law School was established in 1891 by Columbia College School of Law faculty, students, and alumni who were protesting their trustees’ attempts to dictate the teaching methods used by professors. The central figure in the revolt against Columbia and the subsequent creation of New York Law School was Columbia Law School’s founder, Theodore Dwight, a major figure in the history of American legal scholarship.

The Law School’s distinguished full-time faculty comprises productive scholars who are dedicated educators. Some of the nation’s most prominent scholars from other law schools have served as visiting professors. Student enrollment has remained at a level of almost 1,400 students in the Day and Evening Divisions.

Opportunity

NYLS wants to develop a new web presence from the ground up incorporating some of the newest technologies being development today for the web. Not only will the new site have a robust Content Management Solution (CMS), but will also have features never seen on a Law School's website. NYLS will have Blogging, Auctioning, Classified Ads, Tiny URL, Citation Indexes and much more. The CMS also interfaces with the Luminis, the student portal.

Solution

Using the foundation of ConcreteCMS and extending its features with the Cake framework, Swipht developed the site with custom-built features to meet the needs of the school, its students, faculty, staff and community.

Results

The site was launched in September of 2008. Swipht is continues to work with NYLS to extend and enhance the features of their site.

Technologies

• PHP
• Cake
• Concrete CMS
• MySQL
• LAMP