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Clinics

For more than 45 years, Michigan Law has offered clinics in which students take “first-chair” lead responsibility for real clients with real legal needs. Students represent these clients under the supervision of experienced faculty in small, intensive settings in classrooms, boardrooms, and courtrooms in Michigan and beyond.

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1L Advocacy Clinic

The 1L Advocacy Clinic is the only clinic at the University of Michigan Law School—and among the only law clinics in the country—offering first-year law students the opportunity to handle cases.

AI Law and Policy Clinic

Students will represent courts, community-based organizations, legal service providers on AI-driven tools aimed at enhancing access to justice, streamlining legal processes, and addressing systemic justice issues.

Child Advocacy Law Clinic

The Child Advocacy Law Clinic is the oldest law clinic of its kind in which law students represent clients in foster care proceedings.

Child Welfare Appellate Clinic

Students in the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic represent parents facing the permanent termination of their parental rights.

Civil Rights Litigation Initiative

The Civil Rights Litigation Initiative provides students with the unique opportunity to work on important civil rights cases in a clinical setting.

Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic

Students in the Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic learn litigation skills by taking “first chair” responsibility in civil and criminal cases under the guidance of clinical faculty.

Community Enterprise Clinic

Students in the Community Enterprise Clinic provide legal services to nonprofits, community organizations, small businesses, social enterprises, and cooperatives.

Criminal Appellate Practice Clinic

Students in the Criminal Appellate Practice Clinic have the opportunity to represent convicted felons on appeal under supervision of practicing attorneys.

Entrepreneurship Clinic

The Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic is an innovative clinical law program that helps U-M and non U-M innovators and startups launch and grow their businesses.

Environmental Law and Sustainability Clinic

The Environmental Law and Sustainability Clinic provides a unique opportunity for students to learn how to practice environmental and related areas of law.

Federal Appellate Litigation Clinic

The Federal Appellate Litigation Clinic offers students hands-on experience in various stages of federal appellate litigation.

Human Trafficking and Immigration Clinic

Students provide direct representation to survivors of forced labor, and develop disruptive, systemic solutions to reduce vulnerability to trafficking, specifically, assisting responsible business entities address forced labor in their operations.

International Transactions Clinic

The International Transactions Clinic provides students with real-world international transactions experience working for clients around the globe.

Juvenile Justice Clinic

Students in the Juvenile Justice Clinic represent youth charged with violations of criminal law and status offenses in Michigan’s family courts.

Low Income Taxpayer Clinic

Students who join the LITC advocate administratively before the IRS and litigate in United States Tax Court on behalf of low income people with tax controversies.

Michigan Innocence Clinic

Our students investigate and litigate cases on behalf of prisoners who may actually be innocent of crimes for which they have been convicted.

Pediatric Advocacy Clinic

Students in the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic collaborate with healthcare providers and represent low-income families on a wide variety of legal issues connected to child health and well-being.

Transactional Law Clinics Program

We provide Michigan Law students the opportunity to develop the skills and values needed to be effective and ethical transactions attorneys.

Veterans Legal Clinic

Students learn to litigate while representing Michigan veterans in a wide variety of civil legal cases. Students regularly appear in court and leave the clinic competent, confident legal advocates able to litigate cases from beginning to end.
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