NYLS’s clinics provide you with opportunities to represent real people and work on current cases. Guided by expert faculty and attorney supervisors, our wide-range of clinics instill professionalism, empathy, and know-how. Immerse yourself in cutting-edge practice areas, including asylum and immigration, civil rights, family law, housing, criminal prosecution and defense, cyberbullying, elder law, intellectual property, juvenile rights, legislative advocacy, mediation, post-conviction remedies, public policy and regulatory advocacy, transactional law, and more.

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Simulation courses prepare you for working with clients by giving you the opportunity to practice lawyering skills in a controlled environment. Taught by expert faculty, adjuncts in practice, and judges who bring their professional experience into the classroom, our simulation courses help you build lawyering skills through realistic case scenarios, actor simulations, role-play exercises, and mock trials.

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Earn academic credit, build substantive knowledge, and gain practical experience in a supportive real-world setting. As an upper-level student, you can match your interests with one of NYLS's externship or field placement offerings in a variety of practice areas including government, human rights law, financial services law, business law, and more.

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Develop advocacy, litigation, and negotiation skills by participating in co-curricular competition teams and other experiential learning programs. Gain invaluable experience negotiating and mediating, conducting trials, and arguing cases on appeal while learning about professionalism and ethics in legal practice.

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