Animal Law Clinic | Business Law Practicum | International Environmental Law Project | Legal Analysis and Writing | Legal Clinic | Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic | National Crime Victim Law Institute | Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center | Small Business Legal Clinic

Externships and Internships | Clinical Internship Seminars | Moot Courts

Professional Skills Courses (printable pdf format)

Animal Law Clinic

As the only animal law clinic in the country, the Center for Animal Law Studies' Animal Law Clinic focuses on matters of national and international importance in addition to maintaining connections and working in the local community. Students in the Animal Law Clinic conduct research, represent clients, work on clinic projects, and work with attorneys outside the clinic to develop the field of animal law and encourage consideration of the interests of animals in legal decision making. Their work includes: research, transactional work, litigation, and strategic planning. Where possible, students also shadow local lawyers, work with lawyer practitioners around the country, observe legal proceedings, and conduct field work to better understand the problems facing animals.

Visit the Animal Law Clinic's Web Page.

Visit the Center for Animal Law Studies' Web Page.

Business Law Practicum:
Community Development & Nonprofit Law

Under the direction of experienced and highly skilled attorneys, students will assist clients with a multitude of business transactions, including financing, mergers and acquisitions, structuring revenue-generating business ventures, lease agreements, employment policies, and more. Students will have the opportunity to participate in client counseling sessions, negotiations, and drafting business and legal documents. Clinic students represent clients in matters of:

• corporate law
• real estate
• employment
• finance and asset management

Find out more about the Business Law Practicum.

Environmental Clinic: PEAC

The Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (PEAC), founded in 1996, is the environmental law clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School. PEAC's goals are to advance efforts to protect the environment by serving as a resource for public interest organizations that need legal representation and to train and educate law students through direct involvement in complex environmental and natural resource issues. PEAC provides rewarding clinical experience for students interested in environmental law who wish to develop their litigation, negotiation, and advocacy skills. Visit PEAC online.

International Environmental Law Project

The International Environmental Law Project is an on-campus clinic that gives law students the opportunity to work on a range of real-life global environmental issues under the supervision of an experienced international environmental lawyer. Past student work has focused on trade and environmental issues, as well as protection of threatened and endangered species. Students also help public interest environmental lawyers in developing countries create new law or strengthen existing law by providing legal memoranda on international and domestic legal issues. Visit IELP online.

Legal Analysis and Writing

The Legal Analysis and Writing Department helps students become effective lawyers by providing them with a solid foundation that allows them to develop their legal abilities. They learn how to research, write, and make oral argument; they acquire the ability to think critically and reflectively; and they develop the means of communicating clearly. Ultimately, they become legal professionals who are prepared to meet the demands of the practice of law. Visit the L.A.W. website.

Legal Clinic

The Lewis & Clark Legal Clinic offers students the opportunity to serve low income clients in civil and administrative cases and provides excellent practical experience for academic credit.

Students interview and counsel clients, prepare cases and conduct trials, negotiate settlements and prepare appeals. Each student is engaged in almost ever aspect of handling a case. Students have argued cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit, and the Clinic has also handled two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Clinic students represent clients in matters of:

• Consumer law
• Employment law
• Business law
• Family law
• Tenant and housing issues

Visit the Legal Clinic's Web site.

Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic

The law school's Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic gives students the opportunity to represent taxpayers of lesser means in controversies with the Internal Revenue Service, including audits and appeals before that agency, and trials and hearings before the U.S. Tax Court. Student participants work under the supervision of an experienced tax attorney who is a full-time member of the law school faculty. The Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic accepts for representation only those cases that maximize the student's opportunities to learn and develop practical lawyering skills. The Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic is part of the Lewis & Clark Legal Clinic.

Find out more about the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic.

National Crime Victim Law Institute

Established in 2000, the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) is committed to the enforcement and protection of victims' rights in the criminal justice system. It is the only organization of its kind in the United States.

NCVLI's Crime Victim Litigation Clinic offers students the opportunity to work closely with attorneys on a wide range of victims' rights related issues. Clinic students will learn both practical and theoretical approaches to the assertion and enforcement of victims' rights within the criminal justice system. They will provide technical support to victims' rights attorneys and advocacy organizations through legal writing and research, as well as participate in the drafting of amicus curiae briefs. Go to the NCVLI Web site.

Small Business Legal Clinic

Law students, working under the direction of an experienced, licensed attorney, represent small and emerging businesses in transactional (not litigation) matters.

Clinic Services Include:

• Choice of entity and entity creation
• Contract review and drafting
• Debt problems
• Business financing
• Compliance with consumer, licensing and regulatory issues
• Copyright and trademark creation

Visit the Small Business Legal Clinic web site

Externships

An Externship is an opportunity for students who demonstrate strong academic ability to earn a semester's or summer's worth of academic credit for carefully supervised, full-time experience in a setting pertinent to their educational and career goals. The Externship program offers, in appropriate circumstances, a period of apprenticeship under the joint guidance of a carefully selected practitioner or judge and a faculty advisor.

Types of Externships:

• Business/Commercial Law Externship
• Criminal Justice Externship
• Environmental/Natural Resources Externship
• Judicial Externship
• International Law Externship
• General Externship

Find out more information about Externships.

• Animal Law
• Business Advising
• Corporate Counsel
• Criminal Law
• Environmental and Natural Resources Law
• Environmental Prosecutions
• Federal Indian Law
• Intellectual Property
• Western Resources Legal Center

• Appellate Advocacy: Intraschool and Regional
• Client Counseling
• Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition
• Federal Tax
• Intellectual Property
• Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
• Merhige National Environmental Negotiation Competition
• Mock Trial
• National Animal Law Moot Court
• Native American Law Students Association
• ABA Negotiation Competition

Students entering Fall 2006 and later are required to take 2 credits of professional skills.