Experiential learning requirements
All students must successfully complete, with passing grades or better, at least six credits of curricular offerings that provide substantial instruction in professional skills beyond traditional legal research, writing and analysis.
At least three of those professional skills credits must be fulfilled through a clinic or externship that provide substantial instruction in professional skills beyond traditional legal research, writing and analysis.
You can fulfill your requirement by taking six credits from Group A (clinics and externships), or by taking at least three credits from Group A (clinics and externships), with the remainder from Group B (skills courses).
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Group A (clinics and externships)
Clinics
- Appeal and Post-Conviction Advocacy Clinic (4)
- Asylum & Immigration Law Clinic (6)
- Business & Community Law Clinic (6)
- Community Advocacy Clinic (3)
- Disability Law Clinic (6)
- Immigration Appellate Advocacy Clinic (3)
- Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic (6)
Externship Colloquium
- Corporate Counsel Externship (2)
- Holistic Defense Externship (2)
- Judicial Externship (2)
- Public Service Externship (2)
Externship Practicum*
- Corporate Counsel Externship: Practicum (2)
- Holistic Defense Externship: Practicum (2)
- Public Service Externship: Practicum (2)
- Judicial Externship: Practicum (2)
*Must take the corresponding colloquium to receive credit for the practicum.
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Group B (skills courses)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Antitrust & Trade Regulation: Current Issues Seminar
- Business Planning
- Business Planning: A Transactional Approach
- Contract Drafting Seminar
- Criminal Pretrial Advocacy
- Effective Oral Communication for Lawyers
- Interviewing and Counseling
- Mock Trial Workshop
- Negotiation
- Nonprofit Leadership (previously titled Free Legal Aid Advanced, under which title it met the requirement as an externship)
- Patent Application Preparation
- Patent Prosecution
- Peacemaking in State Court Justice
- Practicum in Dispute Resolution
- Pretrial Advocacy
- Taxation of Corporations: Acquisitions & Restructuring
- Trial Advocacy
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Additional rules governing clinics and externships
- 8 credit cap on externships
- 14 credit cap on clinics and externships
- No more than one clinic/externship per semester
- A student may not take a second clinic unless positions remain available two weeks after registration begins.