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If you are interested in environmental law, civil rights, community lawyering, or simply learning how to be a good legal advocate, I highly recommend the Environmental Clinic.
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The Environmental Clinic provides an opportunity to learn real-life lawyering skills, work on meaningful projects, and meet environmental lawyers across the state.
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The Environmental Clinic will not only teach you how to be an environmental lawyer, but why a career in environmental law is for you.
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My time in the clinic was a great foundation for my future career as a transactional lawyer.
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As I prepare to go out into the real world, I feel so much more confident about my ability to research a topic, understand it fully, and write about it persuasively because of this clinic.
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Of course, the Clinic challenged me as a law student. But you have guidance every step of the way. And you ultimately come out as a much better lawyer—and maybe person—at the end of it.
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I worked on cases at the highest level with some of the finest UT Law faculty. Every research assignment, brief section draft, and strategy session with professors and practitioners mattered.
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The Clinic taught me that everything I do as a public defender, down to the smallest detail, is an opportunity to fight on behalf of my clients.
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The Criminal Defense Clinic showed me what the standard of practice should be for public defenders and set the bar for the type of representation I want to provide to every single client I have the privilege of standing next to in court.
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The Clinic gives students an opportunity to take the lead on real cases for real clients, but you do so armed with the guidance and support of incredibly knowledgeable supervising attorneys.
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I’m not aware of any other clinic, course, or internship that allows law students to get this kind (and caliber) of appellate experience.
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You work on real cases at the United States Supreme Court, interact with some of the country's best Supreme Court advocates, and work with wonderful faculty who are committed to having you give your best work to the case.
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When I think back on my time at Texas Law, the Supreme Court Clinic will certainly be on the highlight reel.
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Not only do you get to help shape the community you live in, but you get to do so while gaining first-hand experience in case-management, client interaction, transactional drafting, and public speaking.
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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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My current practice involves a substantial amount of appellate litigation, and the Clinic helped lay an important foundation for my career.
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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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From drafting portions of briefs to visiting the Chief Justice’s chambers, the Clinic exposed me to the most meaningful work and memorable opportunities during my time in law school.
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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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The Children’s Rights Clinic afforded me the opportunity to help others while gaining unparalleled advocacy experience.
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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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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 Supreme Court Clinic was one of the highlights of my education at Texas Law.
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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.