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[ Litigation ] as a Clinic : This clinic is an obvious choice for students interested in constitutional law, and for students with a public policy or public interest career objective. Students in the clinic work with clients in a wide range of disputes: from prisoners to students to employees. You can expect to assist an individual client in obtaining some type of accommodation, or participate in a longer-term project involving group access to some public good or facility. Be sure to also consider other clinics: Whether or not a clinic focuses on the substantive law of your specific career orientation, you can be confident that every clinic will provide skills-based training that is relevant and transferable to other areas of practice. Review the clinic activities for the skill sets you are most interested in acquiring, such as interviewing clients, presenting arguments, writing for different audiences, or negotiating and collaborating with others. Equally important, the mentoring offered to students by clinical program directors provides a valuable opportunity to develop that key lawyering competence: professional judgment. The following clinics are particularly useful for those planning to litigate as they develop written and oral advocacy skills useful for a litigation career in any substantive area: Criminal Defense Clinic Criminal Prosecution Clinic Cyberlaw Clinic Environmental Law Clinic Education Law Clinic Supreme Court Clinic

[ Academia ] [ Regulatory & Policy ] as a Clinic : This clinic is an obvious choice for students interested in constitutional law, and for students with a public policy or public interest career objective. Students in the clinic work with clients in a wide range of disputes: from prisoners to students to employees. You can expect to assist an individual client in obtaining some type of accommodation, or participate in a longer-term project involving group access to some public good or facility. With this, or any other clinic, whether or not it focuses on the substantive law of your specific career orientation, you can be confident that you will get skills-based training that is relevant and transferable. Review the clinic activities for the skill sets you are most interested in acquiring, such as interviewing clients, presenting arguments, writing for different audiences, or negotiating and collaborating with others. Equally important, the mentoring offered to students by clinical program directors provides a valuable opportunity to develop that key lawyering competence: professional judgment. The following clinics are also particularly useful for those planning to work in the policy arena or practice with regulatory agencies, as they develop a policy focus and administrative advocacy skills useful for this career direction in any substantive area: Environmental Law Clinic Education Law Clinic Cyberlaw Clinic