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.
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.
Though she initially resisted after her family’s experiences, Georgina Olazcon Mozo has found her calling as director of the Immigration Law Clinic — and as an empowering mentor.
Join us Oct. 6–8, & 14–15. This basic professional mediation skills training course will focus on collaborative, facilitative, interest-based mediation.
UW law school students spend spring break advocating for unaccompanied children seeking safety in the U.S.
Law students celebrate a Washington Supreme Court ruling that is putting judges and attorneys on notice.
