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Alumna Selena Ng recalls how the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic provided invaluable, real-world experience in meeting the needs of small-business clients.
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About the Clinical Law Program
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.
COVID-19 Clinical Program Guidelines for Operations
On March 18, 2020, UW President Ana Mari Cauce announced that spring quarter will begin as scheduled on March 30, with remote instruction that will continue through the end of the quarter. As country-wide social distancing requirements continue to increase and evolve daily, the University believes this is the best course of action for reducing uncertainty and anxiety and establishing a reliable, high-quality method of instruction and academic progress for UW students through the spring. Our clinics will continue to serve clients with students’ support in compliance with public health guidance for social distancing and good hygiene.
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Entrepreneurial Law Clinic by the Numbers
Learn how the clinic assists low-income entrepreneurs throughout the Pacific Northwest with their business needs while providing real-world experience for the clinic’s students.
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows develop strategic roadmaps for UW innovations
Shawn Swanson, an Engineering Ph.D. student, helped the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic as part of a program in which fellows work on population health innovations developed by UW researchers to determine how these innovations could be financially sustainable while also having a substantial societal impact.
Federal Tax clinic posts huge year for clients
Students worked a total of 271 cases, saving taxpayers over $800,000 and procuring refunds of more than $125,000.
Experiential Learning Program Updates: Continuing to Create Impact
Students, faculty and staff in UW Law's clinics and public service program recorded major wins for clients this spring.