What is the Clinics Program? The law school offers students for-credit opportunities to participate in established clinics and solve problems for real people. Students in these clinical placements learn under the supervision of experienced clinical professors. Students may provide advice to clients, including document drafting and counseling. Students may facilitate resolution of problems for persons by using skills developed in areas such as interviewing, listening, and critical analysis.
What clinical placements are available? Opportunities include those with:
- Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic (academic and clinical components). Students assist real clients to start businesses and to resolve business disputes under the supervision of Director and Clinical Professor Nathan Hammons in this semester-long clinic.
- Mediation Clinic (academic and clinical components). Students mediate (and observe mediations of) civil cases in the Milwaukee County and Waukesha County Circuit Courts Small Claims Divisions, where parties usually are not represented by counsel, in this semester-long clinic under the supervision of Adjunct Professor Paul Stenzel.
- Restorative Justice Clinic (academic and clinical components). Students bring restorative justice practices to community organizations, under the direction of Director and Clinical Professor, Mary Triggiano (former chief judge of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court) in this semester-long clinic.
- Prosecutor Clinic (academic and clinical components). Through this year-long clinic, students grow in their understanding of criminal law and procedure. They develop trial lawyering skills under the direction of veteran Milwaukee County assistant district attorneys.
- Public Defender Clinic (academic and clinical components). In this year-long clinic, students are exposed to the full range of defense trial representation and participate in that representation, all under the direction of veteran assistant state public defenders.