Legal Clinics Provide Students Experiential Legal Learning While Serving the Greater Good.
As part of living out the Christian principles of loving neighbors and seeking justice, Mississippi College School of Law has established a number of pro bono legal clinics that allow students to work directly with real clients to meet real needs.
Mississippi College School of Law Offers a Variety of Clinical Experiences
Adoption Legal Clinic
Help provide permanent homes for children in foster care while working toward your law degree.
Advanced Child Advocacy Clinic
Explore advanced child custody and adoption issues in chancery court.
Mission First Legal Aid Clinic
Help provide legal help to those in need with guardianships, custody and visitation, landlord/tenant, property, expungements, and consumer cases.
The Guardian ad Litem Clinic
Work directly in the court room serving as guardians ad litem, advocation for children involved in Chancery Court proceedings.
The Youth Court Clinic
Work directly defending and counseling children accused in youth court of committing serious offenses.
Veterans Legal Aid Clinic
MC Law students work under the supervision of licensed attorneys to provide legal support to Veterans and eligible family members.
Why participate in a legal clinic experience?
Working in one of the clinics allows a student to experience working with real-life clients, attorneys, judges and other legal professionals prior to graduation. Law students gain legal work experience for their resume. Clinical students participate in a courtroom experience in which they serve as the attorney or an officer of the court. Students work under close supervision of MC faculty and practicing attorneys. Each clinic also includes a weekly substantive classroom component
- Clinical courses are offered in the fall, spring and summer semesters.
- Students may enroll in a clinic after completing at least 45 academic hours.
- Thus, many 2L students may enroll in a clinic in the spring semester of the second year of law school.
- Clinical students are supervised by a faculty clinician.
- Clinical students are sworn in to appear in court, pursuant to the Mississippi Law Student Limited Practice Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 73-3-201 et seq.
