Clinical Programs

New England School of Law offers the following clinics, which are described in a clinical booklet published each semester:

Clinical courses are an integral part of the educational process at New England School of Law. A pioneer in combining a classroom component with each clinic experience, the law school has strongly supported its clinics and maintains varied offerings that expose students to a range of practice settings and fields.

Clinic experience provides an opportunity to put classroom learning into practice in a real-world setting. By requiring students to apply the law to actual situations, clinics encourage rigorous legal and factual analysis and expose students to issues of policy and ethics that seldom arise in the classroom.

Each of New England's clinics has a required classroom component. Most also require a course in a related subject area as a prerequisite or corequisite. The classroom component enhances the educational value of the practical experience found in the field work. As students learn legal theory, classroom knowledge informs their practice experience, and as they are exposed to real-world lawyering, their understanding of the course work is reinforced.

Students who have taken a clinic early in their law school years often report that the clinical experience has enriched their understanding of upper-level classroom course. Students frequently find that clinic experience enhances their preparation for the bar examination and provides a boost to both their resumes and their networking that helps with job searches. The clinical courses also provide excellent opportunities to perform public service and public interest legal work.

In-house clinics

The Lawyering Process
Public Interest Law Seminar and Clinic

Placement clinics

(all students are placed in the same or closely related agencies)

The Government Lawyer
The Tax Clinic

Component clinics

(students do varied clinical work related to the subject area of the course)

Administrative Law
Criminal Procedure II
Environmental Law
Family Law
Federal Courts
Health and Hospital Law
Immigration Law
International Law
Land Use Law
Massachusetts Practice
Mediation
Mental Health Law Clinic

Practice Credit for Business Law

(Not a traditional clinic but administered by business law and clinic faculty).
More information can be found here.