The Law School’s clinical opportunities—where students interview, counsel, and represent actual clients—are among the most extensive in the country.

The Frank J. Remington Center (Remington Center)  is the home of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s prison-based clinics and criminal justice externships. Clinical students in the Remington Center conduct investigations into decades-old wrongful convictions, represent juvenile lifers seeking a second look at their sentences, tackle systemic policy issues to address mass incarceration, facilitate victim-offender dialogues, help clients suffering from severe mental illness access the courts, and argue before the Seventh Circuit, among other opportunities. Remington Center clinics offer an unparalleled opportunity to gain critical lawyering skills and work closely with professors in an intensive semester or yearlong clinic experience.

 The Economic Justice Institute (EJI)  focuses on providing students with hands-on experiences in economic justice issues through individual client representation and community collaboration. EJI has an array of clinical programs where students represent clients in legal proceedings before local, state, and federal agencies and courts, on legal claims including civil rights, consumer, employment, family, housing, immigration, restraining orders, and more.

The Center for Patient Partnerships offers law students the opportunity to work with graduate students across multiple disciplines including (but not limited to) Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, and Public Health. As part of the clinic experience, students help clients navigate the healthcare system. For example, students help clients with insurance appeals, evaluating treatment options, care coordination, addressing benefit options, and more.

The Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic provides legal services to entrepreneurs of all kinds, including high-growth startups, nonprofits and social benefit organizations, small businesses, and more. Under the supervision of experienced business attorneys, students provide legal services on a variety of issues including business formation, employment matters, intellectual property, contracts, and other legal issues confronting businesses.

In our clinics, students work with clients while closely supervised by clinical faculty members. Students learn practical skills, such as how to bill their time, and get guidance and feedback on their matters through regular meetings with their supervising attorney. The clinical work is accompanied by a classroom component focusing on attorney-client relations, as well as substantive and procedural law.