Clinics and Practical Training
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Gain Skills through Real-World Experience
The commitment to ensuring that our graduates are practice-ready directs the CUA Law experience. Recognizing that classwork and textbooks alone do not quite complete the transformation of student to lawyer, all academic programs include transition-to-practice requirements. Many also require participation in clinics, externships, trial or moot court teams, or other hands-on experience.
Through "live client" and simulated lawyering experiences, students learn practical trial techniques, research and writing skills, and other important lawyering skills, such as counseling, interviewing, negotiating, and mediating.
Clinics
Clinical skills lie at the heart of how the law functions as a tool to help and protect others, especially society’s most vulnerable. The law school’s clinical options offer students invaluable, firsthand experience in representing real clients with real legal problems in real courts, under the supervision of faculty members.
> Law Clinics home page
> Columbus Community Legal Services
• Families and the Law Clinic
• General Practice Clinic
• Consumer Protection Project
• Advocacy for the Elderly Clinic
> Immigration Litigation Clinic
> Innocence Project Clinic and
Clemency Project
> Criminal Prosecution Clinic
> Virginia Criminal Defense Clinic
(available spring 2014)
> Columbus Community Legal Services
• Families and the Law Clinic
• General Practice Clinic
• Consumer Protection Project
• Advocacy for the Elderly Clinic
> Immigration Litigation Clinic
> Innocence Project Clinic and
Clemency Project
> Criminal Prosecution Clinic
> Virginia Criminal Defense Clinic
(available spring 2014)
Externships and Outreach
CUA Law’s externship program is among the most extensive in the nation. Students earn class credit and priceless real-world experience in a vast array of legal practice settings that include government, private firms, the judiciary, think tanks, agencies and many other places.
