UW Law provides students with real-world legal experience assisting clients and communities. Building on foundational lawyering skills learned in the first year, students work on real cases, transactions or projects for academic credit supervised by experienced faculty members.
Clinic students may advocate for clients in litigation, negotiate or mediate disputes, advise entrepreneurs and companies, develop policy by drafting legislation and getting it enacted, comment on regulations or gather information, and write reports for legislative bodies.
Stay informed about the latest updates and successes from UW Law's Clinical Law Program, which provides students with real-world legal experience assisting clients and communities.
Students in the Race and Justice Clinic reversed a de facto life sentence by advocating for the mitigating factors of their client’s youthfulness.
Students in the Civil Rights and Justice Clinic supported justice at trial for a father who was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated 15 years ago.
David B. Owens and students from the Civil Rights and Justice Clinic helped secure a $34 million wrongful conviction verdict in Nevada.
The implementation of AI technologies is ever-present, but what underlying worries should users and developers be concerned about? We asked Tech-Law director Jevan Hutson.
Jeannine Lemker, Co-Director, Global Business Law Institute, University of Washington Law School, and Mariola Lisewska, Assistant Director, Global Business Law Institute, University of Washington Law School with contributions from Meriem Debbih, University of Washington Law School.
King County Executive Dow Constantine and the University of Washington School of Law announced a forthcoming free civil legal services clinic to help King County’s veteran community obtain Veterans Affairs benefits.
Join us Oct. 4–6, & 12–13. This basic professional mediation skills training course will focus on collaborative, facilitative, interest-based mediation.
The ambitious Tulalip Tribal Court Practicum gives MSW students hands-on experience in tribal law at the Tulalip Tribal Court. Professor Brenda Williams is quoted, and the Tribal Court Public Defense Clinic and the Native American Law Center are discussed.
