Clinics
Solving real-world legal problems constitutes an essential step in learning to exercise the professional judgment required to become a lawyer. Through Pace Law's clinics, students have the opportunity to represent clients on actual cases and gain practical experience in dealing with diverse and complex legal situations.
Working as an attorney, our students take on front-line responsibility and make all decisions under the guidance and supervision of the clinical faculty. The hands-on experience acquired in the clinics enhances and brings to life the doctrine students learn in other courses. All clinics include both casework and required seminars.
Real Clients, Real Cases
Pace Law offers client-representation clinical programs in criminal defense, disability rights and health law, immigration, and investor rights. In these clinics, student interns represent clients who otherwise could not obtain legal assistance, in both litigation and transactional matters. Under faculty supervision, student interns handle all stages of litigation, from initial client interviews, case assessment and counseling, and plea drafts, through discovery, fact investigation, and settlement negotiations, to hearings and trials. Students engage in client interviews and counseling, prepare draft and final documents, and supervise the execution of legal instruments.
Clinic Faculty and Staff
Our faculty and staff direct our client clinics, supervising and working closely with students on cases and client representation.
Clinic News and Recent Successes
Exiled Pace Immigration Justice Clinic Client Wins Governor's Pardon and a Chance to Return Home
April 4, 2019On New Year’s Eve, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo granted a full and unconditional pardon to Pace Immigration Justice Clinic (“IJC”) client Reginald Castel. Professor Vanessa Merton, Faculty Supervisor of the IJC, and the IJC...
Congratulations to the 2019 NELMCC Winner: University of California Berkeley School of Law
March 4, 2019Instituted in 1989, the Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition (NELMCC) is the largest interschool moot court competition of any kind under one roof, regularly attracting 200 competitors from law schools from all over...
Student Lesly Santos earns spot with the Immigrant Justice Corps
February 25, 2019Congratulations to Lesly Santos '19 , a Pace Law Immigration Justice Clinic Student Attorney, who has earned a spot with the Immigrant Justice Corps. Lesley is one of 27 graduates who were chosen from top law schools across the country to...