CLINICAL PROGRAMS
Seeking Justice and Preparing for Practice
Clinics at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law are our in-house, public interest, teaching law firms representing diverse practice areas. Pepperdine offers multiple clinics, each with its own focus and style of lawyering, but all advancing the school’s mission to provide access to justice for those who cannot afford lawyers, for the sake of social justice and the rule of law.
JEFF BAKER, Clinical Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Clinical Education and Global Programs
JD Clinics
Community Justice Clinic
The Community Justice Clinic provides legal services for nonprofit, nongovernmental, and community organizations engaged in the protection of human rights, community economic development, sustainability, education, and justice causes.
Faith and Family Mediation Clinic
The Faith and Family Mediation Clinic collaborates with the Jewish Divorce Assistance Center of Los Angeles to reach amicable resolutions to civil and Jewish divorces.
Legal Aid Clinic
The Pepperdine Legal Aid Clinic at the Union Rescue Mission serves clients experiencing homelessness on Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles.
Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic provides legal representation to low income taxpayers at the Pepperdine Legal Aid Clinic.
Ninth Circuit Appellate Advocacy Clinic
The Ninth Circuit Appellate Advocacy Clinic represents indigent clients as court-appointed counsel in briefing and arguing appeals, often in civil rights cases.
Restoration and Justice Clinic
The Restoration and Justice Clinic provides legal services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other gender-based crimes.
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
Mediation Clinic
In the Mediation Clinic students mediate landlord/tenant, employment, and merchant/consumer cases.
Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law
Startup Law Clinic
The Startup Law Clinic trains students to serve entrepreneurs of startups, primarily in the technology sector.
Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics
Religious Liberty Clinic
The Religious Liberty Clinic explores questions relating to how civil governments treat the religious beliefs, expressions, and institutions of their citizens and residents.
Practicums
Public
Interest Practicum
The Public Interest Practicum is a field placement through which students work with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County representing individuals in various practice areas. The Veterans Law Practicum serves veterans in the county’s collaborative justice courts.
Externships
Externships are field placements in which students earn academic credit for qualifying legal work under the supervision of lawyers.