Academics Clinical Programs
Clinical Programs
Third-year students have the opportunity to refine their legal skills through the school's Civil Litigation Clinic and the Family Mediation Clinic. Each clinic provides students with experiences serving actual clients, thereby allowing them to develop those skills that will be called upon as practicing attorneys. Student-clinicians are assigned cases that they are likely to see when in private practice, though they receive the benefit of close supervision by an experienced member of the bar.
The Civil Litigation Clinic involves consumer issues, public interest law, and administrative matters. Student-clinicians have direct responsibility for managing cases from initial interviews to conclusion of representation.
The Family Mediation Clinic trains students as third-party neutrals to mediate family-related cases. Students help hurting parties arrive at agreements that are fair, satisfying, doable and durable. Finally, they help the parties explore reconciliation of their broken relationships. Students in the clinics learn skills which will help them to be more capable lawyers.
