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.
King County Executive Dow Constantine and the University of Washington School of Law announced a forthcoming free civil legal services clinic to help King County’s veteran community obtain Veterans Affairs benefits.
Join us Oct. 4–6, & 12–13. This basic professional mediation skills training course will focus on collaborative, facilitative, interest-based mediation.
The Clinical Law program is pleased to announce three incoming clinic directors: Jevan Hutson for Technology Law and Public Policy, Jeannine Lemker for the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic and Nicole McGrath for the Tribal Court Public Defense Clinic.
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.
On Sept. 29, Judge John C. Coughenour of the United States District Court in the Western District of Washington spoke to the new class of clinical law students at the University of Washington School of Law. Visit the photo gallery to see more.
