The Clinic Experience
The University of New Hampshire School of Law's clinics bring law classes to life by allowing students to apply their knowledge to real cases. Experienced faculty members, all of whom practiced in their fields prior to teaching, supervise the clinical programs. All clinics include a classroom component, but their primary focus is on real-world experience, much of it in actual courtrooms.
With the guidance of faculty members, students gain a solid background in legal research and analysis, legal reasoning, litigation, and counseling. Students also receive training in specialized areas such as trial advocacy, dispute resolution, and evidence presentation for today's high technology courtrooms. The University of New Hampshire School of Law's clinical programs benefit students and the community at large, since students often represent clients whose needs might otherwise go unserved.
UNH School of Law's Clinical Programs allow second and third year students to represent clients in actual cases in several practice areas. Currently, UNH School of Law offers nine clinical experiences:
- Appellate Defender Program
- Consumer and Commercial Law
- Criminal Practice
- Intellectual Property and Transaction
- International Technology Transfer Institute Clinic (ITTI Clinic)
- Immigration Law
- IP Amicus Clinic
- Mediation
Students represent clients in District, Superior, Federal and Bankruptcy courts, and handle a variety of cases including landlord/tenant issues; consumer protection; defense of foreclosure; repossession and collection actions; impact litigation for low income clients; and all stages of criminal defense of misdemeanors and felonies, including trials and sentencing.
