Learn by Doing

Through any of the Law School’s ten inhouse and partner clinics, you’ll work on real legal matters as advocates for New York City’s poor and underserved. A law school clinic is a program providing services to various clients and hands-on-legal experience to law school students. Clinics are directed by clinical professors and practicing attorneys. Legal clinics do pro bono work and provide free legal services to clients. The Law School’s in-house clinics operate as a non-profit law firm on the 2nd floor of the school.

10 Clinics Bankruptcy Advocacy Clinic Child Advocacy Clinic Consumer Justice for the Elderly: Litigation Clinic Criminal Defense Clinic Domestic Violence Litigation Clinic Economic Justice Clinic Prosecution Clinic Refugee and Immigrant Rights Litigation Clinic Securities Arbitration Clinic Tenants’ Rights Advocacy Clinic

“Our clinics are the last stop for many New Yorkers. Without our assistance, most of our clients would go unrepresented, without any meaningful access to the courts. Clinic students begin to realize the importance of their work in representing the rights of those who lack any power in society. We take a holistic approach to client representation, striving to meet client needs beyond the initial legal problem presented, as well as the needs of the larger community. We work to have a wider social impact, to educate community members about their rights under the law, and to listen to them so we can address their concerns and challenges.”

—Ann L. Goldweber Professor and Director of Clinical Legal Education Director of the Consumer Justice for the Elderly Litigation Clinic

100s of Externships* ALM Media BOC International (USA) Holdings Inc. Brooklyn Defender Services Disability Rights New York District Attorney’s Offices (Brooklyn, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Westchester) DLA Piper Federal Trade Commission Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Girl Scouts of the USA National Labor Relations Board New York City Law Department New York State Attorney General’s Office New York State Courts New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department Roc Nation Sony Corporation of America The Estee Lauder Companies The Legal Aid Society The Safe Center Long Island United Nations Development Programme United States Attorney’s Office (EDNY and SDNY) United States Bankruptcy Court United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit United States Court of International Trade United States Department of Justice United States District Court (EDNY and SDNY) United States Environmental Protection Agency United States Securities Exchange Commission

Over 75 percent of the class of 2020 completed clinics or externships and ALL students who wanted to participate in a clinic or externship were able to.

*Sampling