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Our coursework, and my work on a report advocating for the establishment of a public defender office in Travis County, have given me the tools to think about ways to address the larger, systemic issues in our criminal justice system.
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My experiences with the Immigration Clinic absolutely exceeded my expectations. No student should pass up the opportunity to take on a case in the Immigration Clinic; we have so much to learn from our clients.
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My participation in the Immigration Clinic was one of the most enjoyable, valuable, and rewarding experiences of my law school career.
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The Immigration Clinic is the best experience I can imagine having in law school.
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The Environmental Law Clinic was one of the most valuable experiences I had during law school.
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If you're looking for the opportunity to work on impactful projects and learn from experts in environmental law, you should work in the Environmental Clinic.
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The Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic offers the best opportunity at Texas Law to explore and develop skills important to the practice of transactional law.
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The Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic was the best experience I had at Texas Law.
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If you are interested in understanding how environmental statutes affect the people of Texas and gaining experience with administrative law, take the Environmental Clinic.
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This Clinic prepares you to practice law.
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My time in the clinic was an incredible experience. I was able to learn how to do research in new areas of law, sharpen my writing skills, and contribute in a meaningful way to helping our clients.
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The Environmental Clinic was a highlight of my law school experience.
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Working for the Clinic was a great experience.
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It was an amazing experience that exposed me to a nuanced practice of law that is dynamic, impactful, and rewarding.
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No other programs, including summer clerkships, provided the level of professional development and client interaction that I was privileged to have gained during my time at the Clinic.
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I attribute my chosen career path to the knowledge I gained in this clinic, and I highly recommend it to any law student interested in political law, policy creation, or public service.
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During the Spring of 1996, I handled cases for several kids in the Juvenile Justice Clinic.
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The Immigration Clinic is truly the most rewarding project I have undertaken as a law student, and the opportunities the clinic program gives to students can't be overstated.
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Being a student attorney in the Domestic Violence Clinic was the perfect gentle transition into being a real lawyer.
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The Housing Clinic is an incredible opportunity to practice law, but more importantly, it is a chance to help people in a meaningful way.
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As a practicing attorney I use the skills that I learned in the Civil Rights Clinic every single day.
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My two semesters in the Criminal Defense Clinic were the most educational and inspirational of law school.
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The Mental Health Clinic was the most rewarding and eye opening experience that I had while in law school.
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The Supreme Court Clinic was one of the highlights of my education at Texas Law.
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Doing everything from advocating for the release of families from detention to preparing asylum cases and engaging in interesting research motivated me to pursue a career defending immigrant's rights.
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I learned about different types of law and then put that knowledge into action by meeting with actual clients and representing those clients in court.
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Through handling my own docket of cases, I learned practical skills like time management, negotiation, and dealing diplomatically with opposing parties and counsel.
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The Civil Rights Clinic gave me the chance to work in the same capacity as an associate at a firm in that I had the opportunity to write memos, conduct discovery, and meet with clients.
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The Clinic has provided me with an amazing opportunity to work directly with clients who have challenging cases.
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Although we didn't get the results we wanted, the advocacy experience we received was invaluable.
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Within a few weeks of being in the clinic, I was interviewing clients, speaking with other parties' counsel in the case, and attending court hearings.
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I am confident that through my work with the Children's Rights Clinic I have become a better advocate and person.
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From both a criminal law and litigation perspective, the practical experience will undoubtedly be an invaluable one as I start my career practicing law.
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I consider the Civil Rights Clinic to be the most formative and important experience of my time at UT Law.
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Because of my training, experience, and education with the Criminal Defense Clinic, I feel ready and eager to begin my work as a public defender.
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By meeting with clients in-person and becoming personally involved with each case, I learned what it meant to be an advocate, rather than merely a lawyer.
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[The Clinic] provided some of the most practical preparation and training in my chosen field that I received at UT.
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The Children's Rights Clinic afforded me the opportunity to help others while gaining unparalleled advocacy experience.
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The clinic offers a great chance to develop as a professional while making a meaningful difference for children who need a voice in court.
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[Professor Natarajan] helped bridge the gap that divides knowing how to think about the law and knowing how to effectively and efficiently go about applying the law.
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Without a doubt, my experience in the clinic was instrumental in helping me procure post-graduate employment and allowed me to show up to my first day of work with real and valuable knowledge of the law and legal practice.
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Actual Innocence students have the chance to be the driving force in moving cases forward for those who would otherwise be without an advocate in the system.
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I am confident that my work with the clinic greatly developed the skills that I will use as a litigator - not to mention, I was able to be a part of a great cause.
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The Clinic empowers students are able make a tangible difference in the lives of community members.
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Not only was the entire experience personally and professionally rewarding, but also I had the chance to use my legal knowledge to further a worthy cause.
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I was able to build off my work in the clinic and it has helped launch my career as a community lawyer in Austin.
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Of all my experiences in law school, the Clinic was the most useful to me during my clerkships and in my practice.
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The Criminal Defense Clinic was easily the most valuable experience I had during law school.
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I will be a better lawyer because of the skills I learned in this clinic; I am a better person for having been a voice for these kids.
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Being a student attorney in the Children's Rights Clinic is the most rewarding experience I have had at UT Law.
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Along with being the most rewarding activity I did in law school, the Children's Rights Clinic is hands down the most substantive activity as well.
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The Juvenile Justice Clinic was a great experience for me! It taught me the practical skills of interacting with clients, coming up with legal arguments, and presenting those legal arguments in court.
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Getting the chance to advocate for real clients that are in great need of our services is not only practically useful, but also incredibly rewarding.
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Working with clients is incredibly meaningful and fulfilling and it seems that every law student should have such an experience before graduating.
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The skills and knowledge I have gained through my experiences in the Clinic go far beyond anything that can be learned in a classroom.
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The Actual Innocence Clinic gave me the chance to do real legal work for people in need.
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I very much enjoyed the many opportunities for collaboration as well as forming a relationship with our client.
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The clinic placed me in a situation which stirred inside of me that thing which I had lost.
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The client contact and actually working on real cases, rather than reading about them in books, is an invaluable experience that every law student should have.
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I am happy to give back. It has been a fantastic experience, I'm glad I was a part of it.
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What has been most important to me about the Clinic is that the legal work takes place in the context of a community of values.
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...seeing the global picture makes it easier to separate out the causes/motivations/effects of certain labor abuses on a discrete population.
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If you are a person who learns by doing, it is the best environment in which to gain practical experience.
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Being able to use my advocacy skills to represent clients in probable cause and commitment hearings against seasoned prosecutors while still in school was exhilarating and extremely rewarding.
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I did have one electrifying lawyer moment. The doctor was about to introduce some inadmissible - and very damaging - hearsay, and I objected. The judge sustained my objection, took the case under advisement...
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My experience in the clinic helped me discover the type of law that I want to practice, and will no doubt prove invaluable in my legislative counsel position after graduation.
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I hope to spend a good bit of my career around the Legislature, where negotiation is an essential skill that I would not have otherwise been taught in law school but for this course.
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The clients were diverse and interesting, the work was rewarding, and the course’s classroom component supplemented our projects beautifully.
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The Juvenile Justice Clinic taught me the crucial importance of patience and persistence as an advocate.
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The study of law and the practice of law are very different, and I think that the Juvenile Justice Clinic was one of my most valuable experiences in law school specifically because it facilitates the transition from the study to the practice of law.
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The Human Rights Clinic is an excellent opportunity to help people from all across the globe, to further develop your research and writing skills, and to gain a strong understanding of the human rights landscape generally.
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The experience has been a point of interest for job interviews since then, and the freedom and independence I was afforded to craft an advocacy strategy has taught me a great deal about human rights.
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I so enjoyed the Housing Clinic, and the biggest lesson I learned was that of client advocacy.
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Beyond the great work I got to do in the Clinic, the opportunity to work with Fred Fuchs was truly a life-changing experience.
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The Environmental Clinic was a hugely rewarding experience. Professor Haragan takes a real interest in the development of her students, and I am grateful for the opportunity to work closely with her.
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I hoped that my experience in the Environmental Law Clinic would allow me to better understand the differences and similarities between the legal systems in Brazil and the U.S. The Clinic gave much more than that...
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The clinic solidified many of the abstract concepts of law school by allowing me to practice them in the real world.
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The Community Development Clinic gave me the most exposure to real clients and real legal work than any of my other classes.
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The Community Development Clinic has been one of the best experiences I have had while in law school, and has shaped my career as a lawyer.
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Working with other committed, passionate DVC students was one of the most rewarding aspects of the Clinic, since most student-student interaction in traditional classes is limited to study groups.
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I can confidently say, without a doubt in my mind, that the Criminal Defense Clinic was the single best thing I did at Texas Law.
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In the classroom, Bill Allison and the Clinic supervisors were more encouraging, involved, and interested in my progress than any professor I have had.
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The Clinic surpassed all of my expectations. I learned valuable lessons in managing criminal cases from start to finish, and also gained important skills in dealing with clients, prosecutors, and judges.
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Learning through experience, both your own and that of other Clinic students, makes the issues that lawyers constantly deal with accessible and compelling.
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While I’ve had many valuable educational experiences at UT, the Clinic is the one thing I’ve done during my tenure in which I felt like a lawyer—with all the joy, frustration and terror that goes along with it.
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The Criminal Defense Clinic served me well as a valuable stepping-stone from the world of legal theory to the world of legal practice, all while allowing me to help real people deal with difficult legal problems.
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My experience with the clinic has not only been the highlight of my time at Texas Law—but is the reason that I feel confident that law school was the correct professional choice for me.
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I came into the clinic with little knowledge of civil rights law and left with a solid understanding of the substantive law and really useful litigation experience.
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The Clinic has been an excellent opportunity to learn substantive civil rights law and apply it to a real-world situation.
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The Clinic provides a unique opportunity to give back to the community by helping children through a legal process that may potentially impact the rest of their lives.
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I am learning how the legal system works by managing my cases and building communication skills by speaking before a judge -- all in a safe environment where I can ask questions of my supervisor and receive real-time feedback.
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A student in the Capital Punishment Clinic will have a very educational and rewarding experience. The Capital Punishment Clinic was the best thing I did in law school.
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I was able to learn and understand procedural and substantive capital punishment law due to the first-class faculty members in the Clinic.