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
Professor Jason Czarnezki Awarded Prestigious Olof Palme Visiting Professorship
November 15, 2018 • Press ReleasePace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law (Pace Law) announces that Jason Czarnezki has been awarded the prestigious Olof Palme Visiting Professorship. Professor Czarnezki is currently Associate Dean of Environmental Law Programs and...
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law Celebrates 30 Years of Clean Energy Work at the Pace Energy and Climate Center
November 1, 2018 • Press ReleasePace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law today celebrated 30 years of work at the Pace Energy and Climate Center (PECC). For three decades, PECC has been at the leading edge of creating and implementing solutions to our energy and...
President Trump, the New Chicago School and the Future of Environmental Law and Scholarship
October 29, 2018 • Jason CzarnezkiRecent presidents including Bill Clinton, G. W. Bush, and Barack Obama have refined how environmental law has been enacted and carried out. Under President Trump, the scope of public environmental law will most certainly narrow. It seems likely that...