Clinics, Practical Skills and Projects
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
Under the supervision of Laura Ireland Moore, Executive Director of the National Center for Animal Law, students support animal law attorneys and animal advocacy organizations nationwide to advance protections for companion animals, wildlife, and animals used for research, entertainment, and food and food production through litigation, regulations, and legislation.
Visit the Animal Law Clinic's Web Page Business Law Practicum: Community Development Law Project
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 performs legal research and writing and provides technical support to victim organizations and lawyers. Law students in the clinic work on appellate litigation support needed for actual cases. The clinic represents a broad spectrum of crime victims and victim advocacy organizations in criminal cases; provides litigation support to lawyers representing victims in such cases; and continually updates a database of victim laws, including a memo and brief bank. Litigation support consists primarily of legal research and writing.
Through the newly formed Center for Law & Policy on Sexual Violence housed within NCVLI, students may have the opportunity to work on projects involving litigation, legislation or other policy work, selecting cases that will advance the law in the areas of sexual assault, stalking and domestic violence. 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 and Internships |
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.
| Clinical Internship Seminars |
- 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.
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