UW Law provides students with real-world legal experience assisting clients and communities. Building on foundational lawyering skills learned in the first year, students work on real cases, transactions or projects for academic credit supervised by experienced faculty members.
Clinic students may advocate for clients in litigation, negotiate or mediate disputes, advise entrepreneurs and companies, develop policy by drafting legislation and getting it enacted, comment on regulations or gather information, and write reports for legislative bodies.
Stay informed about the latest updates and successes from UW Law's Clinical Law Program, which provides students with real-world legal experience assisting clients and communities.
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic students worked alongside cutting-edge startups at the Creative Destruction Lab, gaining hands-on experience at the intersection of law, manufacturing and emerging technologies.
Learn how the clinic offers legal support to immigrants and equips student-lawyers with practical social justice experience.
Mark your calendars: Oct. 2–4, & 10–11. This basic professional mediation skills training course will focus on collaborative, facilitative, interest-based mediation.
Jevan Hutson, director of the Technology Law & Public Policy Clinic, on machine unlearning’s implications for privacy law.
Two long-time faculty members, Kimberly Ambrose, J.D. ‘89, and John Clynch, J.D. ‘89 and LL.M. ‘08, will retire by this summer from the University of Washington School of Law. They recently reflected on their careers, colleagues and students, and shared their plans for the future.
Learn how the program blends practical training with community impact, preparing the next generation of lawyers to navigate the evolving world of entrepreneurship.
Students from the Tech-Law Clinic contributed research and analysis to the state’s inaugural AI Task Force report.
Students in the Race and Justice Clinic work to reduce a de facto life sentence by advocating for the mitigating factors of their client’s youthfulness.
