In This Section

• Overview
• Center for Children's Rights
• Center for Intellectual Property Law
• Center for International and Comparative Law
• Legal Clinics
  • Children’s Advocacy Clinic
  • Family Violence Clinic
  • Special Education Clinic
• Private and Public Externship Program
• Institute of Student and Graduate Academic Support
• Institute for Trial and Appellate Practice
• Institute for Writing and Professional Skills
• Study Abroad

Legal Clinics

Whittier Law School’s on-campus legal clinics provide students with a variety of experiences that enhance their classroom study of substantive and procedural law. Students’ representation of actual clients and their involvement in cutting edge legal policy issues provides a context for classroom pedagogy and enables students to provide both pro bono representation to indigent clients and to begin to develop a professional and ethical identity. In addition to learning practical lawyering skills such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, fact investigation, legal drafting and oral advocacy, students work closely with clinical faculty who help students reflect on and grow from their experiences as legal advocates. Many students find their clinic involvement one of the most formative, memorable, and important law school experiences.

For more information about the clinical program, please contact:

Jeanne Thomas
Clinical Professor and Director of Whittier Law School Children’s Rights Clinic

Meredith Goetz
Director of Special Education Clinic

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