Information for Current Students
The Semester in Practice is a full-time, limited-enrollment, individually tailored external clinic, appropriate for students interested in self-directed learning under the supervision of an experienced field-mentor. Field-mentors are experienced lawyers who work with and within government (state, federal and local), NGOs, non profit organizations, and law firms.
We intend, through this clinic:
- To give students interested in an area of substantive law not offered at VLS an opportunity to learn that area through work with practitioners specializing or practicing in it.
- To permit students through practical experience to develop an area of substantive law expertise beyond the level available through courses.
- To give students an opportunity through experiential application to gain familiarity with or mastery of some lawyering skills beyond the level available at VLS.
- To give students intensive research, writing, and analytic problem solving opportunities in the context of whole cases.
- To give students sufficient legal experience to improve their understanding and retention of materials and skills taught in the classroom.
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