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Legal Clinics

• Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
• Criminal Clinic
• Tax Clinic
• Asylum and Human Rights Clinic
• Mediation Clinic

Connecticut's Clinical Programs give students the opportunity to work in client-based, in-house law firms where they gain real-life experience in state and federal court rooms.

Because Connecticut has one of the most liberal student practice rules in the country, student attorneys are permitted to represent clients in an unlimited array of civil and criminal cases in all courts and administrative agencies in the jurisdiction.

Full-year Criminal (both trial and appellate), Civil Appellate, and Tax Clinics and one-semester Mediation and Asylum and Human Rights Clinics give students hands-on experience across a broad spectrum of real-life legal challenges. All clinical education is based upon an intensive course of study, simulation, and preparation offered by full-time professors who are also practice specialists.

The Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic provides students with the unique opportunity to counsel Connecticut's innovators on an extensive range of intellectual property (patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret) and related business law issues.

Students in the Criminal Clinic assume primary litigation responsibility for virtually every type of serious felony case on the trial level. They have argued dozens of cases to the Connecticut Supreme Court and Appellate Courts.

In the Tax Clinic, students provide legal services to low-income tax payers. Clinic students represent clients in a wide range of administrative and tax court proceedings.

In the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, students represent refugees who have fled persecution abroad and are seeking political asylum in the U.S. Students handle all aspects of hearings before the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration Courts.

The Mediation Clinic trains students to serve as mediators in community and court-annexed disputes, under the supervision of clinic faculty and experienced professional mediators.

Read more about experiential learning at UConn Law in the June 2002 issue of the Graduate Report.