JU President Tim Cost, from the left, JU interim Provost Dr. Sherri Jackson, JU College of Law Dean Nick Allard, Mayor Donna Deegan, City Council Vice President Kevin Carrico, and JU College of Law Vice Dean Margaret Dees cut the ribbon to the law school Monday morning.

The fledgling Jacksonville University College of Law on Monday celebrated the opening a new downtown campus in the historic former Atlantic Bank Building.

Randall C. Berg, Jr., Founding Dean Nick Allard said the college is looking forward “to educating a long line of outstanding future lawyers” in the “historic” space.