page_title: Brooklyn Law School
section_title: Clinics
hierarchical_section_title: Brooklyn Law School / Academics / Clinics
caption_attribution_description: Brooklyn Law School's former administrative building, located at One Boerum Place, Brooklyn New York. The site was sold to Avery Hall Investments for $76.5 million in 2016.
context_page_description: Brooklyn Law School is a private law school in New York City. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and a number of adjunct faculty. A JD program at Brooklyn Law School costs $61,550 per academic year.
  Brooklyn Law School has produced a number of luminaries. Included among them are New York City Mayor David Dinkins, US Senator Norm Coleman, judges Frank Altimari and Edward R. Korman, attorneys Stephen Dannhauser, Myron Trepper, Allen Grubman, and Bruce Cutler, CEOs Barry Salzberg and Marty Bandier, and billionaire real estate developers Leon Charney and Larry Silverstein.
context_section_description: In 2009, Brooklyn Law School clinical program was ranked 28th in the nation. In 2010, The National Jurist ranked BLS fourth in the country for its public service work, largely influenced by its clinical program. The clinics specialize in the areas of bankruptcy, securities arbitration, immigration, entrepreneurship, technology, criminal law, real estate practice, intellectual property, and mediation. Students represent individual clients, groups, and businesses and appear in state, federal, and administrative courts, on both the trial and appellate levels. Brooklyn Law School created a new mandate in 2014 that requires students to complete at least one clinic or externship course before graduation. Among the law school's clinics include:
  The Advocates for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disability (AAIDD) Clinic represents low-income New Yorkers and their families in a variety of civil matters that impact adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and provides the opportunity for students to advocate in diverse areas of law ranging from public benefits, guardianship, housing and access to government services.
  The Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic, (BLIP),  functions like a law firm that represents Internet, new media, communications, and other tech entrepreneurs and innovators on both business and policy advocacy. Students work with clients on transactional, litigation, policy, and other advocacy projects and interact and strategize with members of the entrepreneurial, technology and financial communities, as well as with legislators, regulators and other policymakers.
  Capital Defender and Federal Habeas Clinic affords students the opportunity to represent death row inmates (post-conviction) in other states and defendants in New York who have filed federal habeas corpus petitions. The work consists of filing petitions in the U.S. Supreme Court.
  Community Development Clinic provides opportunities for students to represent community development corporations, cultural institutions, affordable housing providers, and small businesses that serve under-represented communities.
caption: Brooklyn Law School's administrative building located at One Boerum Place, near the Fulton Mall
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