Mar 28, 2024  
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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LAW 905 - Advocacy Clinic

6 Credit Hours
Supervised fieldwork requiring substantial responsibility for representing clients with various civil and criminal legal problems. Will explore and begin to develop the fundamental professional skills involved in practicing law. Will gain experience interviewing and counseling clients, negotiating with other attorneys, planning for dispute resolutions, trials and hearings, initiating and defending claims, conducting factual investigations and presenting evidence. Will also explore holistic lawyering and systematic solutions to individual legal problems.
Credit Restriction: May not be taken concurrently with 947, 948, or 949.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 813.
(DE) Corequisite(s): 814.
Comment(s): Third-year standing required. Students may not take Advocacy Clinic (905) in the same semester as the Prosecutorial Externship (947), the Public Defender Externship (948), or the Judicial Externship (949). Second semester second year students may be eligible by waiver, space permitting.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.



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