Through the School of Law’s clinics, students can perform a broad range of legal tasks, all valuable preparation for legal practice. These may include:

• Interviewing and counseling clients
• Gathering and analyzing evidence
• Performing legal research
• Preparing legal memoranda and briefs
• Negotiating
• Arguing on behalf of clients before judges and other adjudicators

Offered as a service to the community, the clinics provide students with key educational opportunities—among them the chance to become knowledgeable about legal doctrine as it operates in practice; to understand the rules of professional responsibility in context; to develop interviewing, counseling, fact gathering, strategic decision-making, negotiation and oral advocacy skills; to gain experience in legal and factual analysis; and to develop the habits of reflective practice.

Quinnipiac offers six clinic programs which award between two and eight credits:

Civil
In this clinic you’ll represent clients in state, probate and federal courts and before administrative agencies. More…

Tax
In this clinic, you will represent low- and moderate-income individuals in administrative and court proceedings with the Internal Revenue Service at the audit, appeals and collection levels. More…

Advanced
Faculty invite a small number of students from the Civil and Tax clinics to return for a second semester, during which they assume greater responsibility for casework and build upon the skills they developed during their first semester of clinic practice.

Evening
If you enroll as an evening student, you will have the opportunity to work with clients of the Civil and Tax clinics in a program modified to meet the special scheduling needs of students who have other commitments during traditional business hours.

Defense Appellate
Under the supervision of an attorney with the Chief Public Defender’s office, you will represent incarcerated, indigent criminal defendants appealing convictions for non-capital offenses. More…

Prosecution Appellate
Led by a member of the Appellate Bureau of the Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney’s office, you will present the state’s position in criminal appeals at the Connecticut Appellate or Supreme Court. More…