Best Legal Departments 2013

The headquarters of the largest four-year university system in the world is located in Long Beach, California. Not far from the town’s huge eponymous port and the retired Queen Mary ocean liner, the California State University offices overlook a point where the Los Angeles River meets the bay, and ferries set sail for Catalina Island. Here, in the Office of the Chancellor, CSU administrators oversee the goings-on of 23 campuses and nearly 440,000 students. And they’re still grappling with the $1 billion in budget cuts they’ve been dealt the last few year