Legal Clinics
J.D. students gain invaluable training and experience in the legal, ethical, and practical skills and decision-making processes required in litigation and dispute resolution through participation in GW's Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics. Working under faculty supervision, students serve as mediators in consumer disputes; represent individual parties in local and federal courts on claims relating to vaccine injury, employment discrimination, criminal trials and appeals, legal residency and citizenship, landlord–tenant disputes, divorce, and child custody; serve on litigation teams representing large groups of individuals in complex class action suits; and engage in amicus and direct appellate representation in the areas of domestic violence and international human rights.
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