Wake Forest offers a very exciting, diverse, and expanding offering of clinical legal opportunities for law students.  In clinics, students can hone their legal skills applying the law to real cases and legal issues.  Clinics require students to make a significant commitment and work many hours, but the rewards can be tremendous.  Students note how clinics have helped them grow as professionals, gain valuable on the job experience, and gave them their first opportunity to work with real clients.

Since students receive academic credit for their clinic work they can’t count clinic hours as pro bono hours according to ABA requirements, even though most clinics or clinical placements provide valuable free or low-cost legal services to the community.  Still, there are many similarities between the work students do in clinics and the work that they can do through pro bono projects.  Because students typically must wait until their second or third year to participate in clinics, pro bono projects offer students the opportunity to gain practical skills in their first and second years and can steer them towards particular clinical opportunities.  Thus, pro bono projects and legal clinics provide Wake Forest law students with the ability to shape a well-rounded and practical legal education.

Wake Forest’s Legal Clinics

• Appellate Advocacy Clinic
• Child Advocacy Clinic
• Community Law & Business Clinic
• Elder Law Clinic
• Innocence & Justice Clinic
• Litigation Clinic
• Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Externship Program