Encouraging and preparing students to become community lawyers has a prominent place in the life of Franklin Pierce Law Center. It is in the mainstream, not on the sidelines. It plays a major part in the school's commitment to student training, social responsibility, and professional activism. Nearly half of the Franklin Pierce faculty have experience practicing public interest law. They have specialized in cases and controversies affecting children's welfare, consumers, indigent criminal defendants, health care, environmental protection, and other leading topics of social concern.
Students benefit directly from faculty's experience.
Under faculty supervision students represent, work with, and advise a wide variety of groups. Clients include children, victims of domestic violence, federal and state commissions, gay and lesbian communities, and elderly people. The school's size also allows students to work with faculty to combine areas, such as poverty and environmental law, and design individual programs tailored to students interests. Community lawyers do many different things, including trying cases, lobbying legislators, formulating policy, leading and consulting with organizations, and representing community service groups. The Law Center makes those experiences available.