Skills Training through Service
Skills Training through Service
At William Mitchell, you'll gain lawyering skills while using your education to help the disadvantaged access justice through the public services you perform as a student. In our clinic program, you can represent low-income clients and organizations that otherwise would go unrepresented. William Mitchell's work with the Minnesota Justice Foundation provides students with a wide range of volunteer opportunities including teaching law to high school students, ensuring that foreign speakers have access to legal aid, and assisting the poor in accessing health care. And our externship program can put you to work in the public sector with judges and government agencies.
These experiences help develop in you a commitment to public service, ethical understanding, and insight into the legal process. And more important is the need such programs fill in the greater community. Sometimes the simplest things make a world of difference in a client’s life. In one case, for example, a client was having trouble getting a full-time job to support her three children because of a past conviction for welfare fraud. Through the efforts of a student in our clinic program, the woman’s record was expunged, and she was able to secure a full-time job with benefits.