M S T hird-year students have the opportunity to refine their lawyering skills through the School s Litigation Clinic and the Family Mediation Clinic. Each clinic provides students with experiences serving actual clients, thereby allowing them to develop those skills that will be called upon as practicing attorneys. Student-clinicians are assigned cases that they are likely to see when in private practice, though they receive the benefit of close supervision by an experienced member of the bar. The Litigation Clinic involves consumer issues, domestic relations, and administrative matters. Student-clinicians have direct responsibility for managing cases from initial interviews to conclusion of representation.
Students help hurting parties arrive at agreements that are fair, satisfying, doable and durable.
Finally, they help the parties explore reconciliation of their broken relationships. Students in the clinics learn skills which will help them to be more capable lawyers. In the near future, the law school will add clinics for general mediation and community economic development.