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The UCLA School of Law offers superb training in lawyering skills. Since pioneering clinical legal education in the early 1970s, the UCLA Clinical Program has blazed an outstanding path of innovation and excellence. It offers extensive and rigorous practical training for student-lawyers interested in litigation, transactional and public interest work. Every first-year student is required to take a foundational lawyering skills course, and upper-division students choose among more than twenty clinical course offerings.
Clinical courses include a range of live-client clinics such as Depositions and Discovery in Complex Litigation, the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic or Community Economic Development in which students represent actual clients or community groups. The Clinical Program also offers a series of sophisticated simulation-based skills courses such as our outstanding trial advocacy classes and a series of transactional clinical courses. In these varied clinical settings, students learn how to interview and counsel clients, represent groups, draft legal documents, examine and cross-examine witnesses, resolve disputes, and argue before a judge or jury. Students interested in transactional practice can learn how to finance a start-up company, sell a private company, advise a community-based organization engaged in economic development projects, or manage a myriad of environmental issues that arise when selling a business.
These clinics and clinical courses are taught by superlative faculty who have won numerous teaching awards and who have contributed many of the cornerstone ideas that form the basis of clinical scholarship.
Read in-depth information about the Clinical Program in the Fall 2004 alumni magazine, UCLA LAW.
Teaching awards to clinical faculty
- In 2006 Professor David Binder won the William Pincus Award, for contributions to Clinical Legal Education for his path breaking contributions to clinical education.
- In 2006 Litigation specialist Professor Albert Moore won the campus wide UCLA Distinguished Teaching award. Professor Moore teaches and writes in the areas of trial advocacy and depositions.
- Co-director of Wells Environmental Law Clinic Professor Ann Carlson won the 2006 Rutter Award for teaching excellence.
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The Criminal Defense Clinic, working together with Sanjukta M. Paul, a civil rights attorney with the firm Rothner, Segall, Greenstone & Leheny, secured a victory for catering food truck operators in a case challenging the constitutionality of a city ordinance that has been aggressively implemented against these vendors in Los Angeles since the beginning of 2008.
Criminal Defense Clinic featured in Los Angeles Times Article and on CBS 2 News
Brand New Clinics for 2009-2010:
- Bankruptcy Transactions Course: An advanced transactional clinical course in the bankruptcy/commercial law core of the law school's business curriculum.
- Civil Rights Litigation Clinic: This clinic will study principles of federal civil rights law and practice, and train students in the skills involved in litigating these cases.
Clinical Program highlights and achievements for academic year 2008-2009
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Law Schools at UC Berkeley and UCLA initiate Blog on Environmental and Climate Change in March 2009
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UC Law Schools launch Washington, DC Program, UCDC Law
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