"UK's Clinical Program offers an exceptional introduction to the realities of legal practice and client representation..."
Civil Litigation Clinic
The College of Law's Clinical Program, currently directed by Professor D'lorah Hughes, opened across the street from the College of Law in 1997. This is a letter-graded, practice-oriented course provides third-year students with a unique opportunity to represent individuals who are unable to afford counsel on a variety of legal matters. Under the Kentucky Supreme Court’s limited practice rule, and with the supervision of the clinic director, students may represent clients in negotiations with federal and state agencies, in administrative hearings, in court proceedings up to and including trial, or in other advocacy settings. Skill development may include interviewing clients/witnesses, review of relevant documents/discovery, assessment of cases, conducting legal research, drafting of pleadings and discovery, taking of depositions, recognition of ethics issues, and actual court or agency appearances.
Civil Rights and Restorative Justice-Kentucky Clinic (CRRJ-KY)
CRRJ-KY is an expansion of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University School of Law, this Kentucky-focused project is devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, research, and policy analysis of cases of racial violence in the Jim Crow-era Commonwealth. The legal clinicians at CRRJ-KY work at the crossroads of history and criminal justice to provide much-needed fact finding and redress for cold cases of historical civil rights violations in Kentucky. CRRJ-KY works with families and communities to seek appropriate options of redress for the injustices committed against our clients. Ultimately, this project aims to uncover an accurate history of racial terror and through legal practices of restorative justice reconcile the ongoing damage of the harms from the past against our clients that remain unresolved in the present. This is a letter-graded, three credit experiential course.
Advanced Clinic
Students in the Advanced Clinic course may continue their supervised casework from a prior semester, take on additional and more complex legal matters, develop and execute clinic projects, and assist the clinic director with the supervision of new clinic students. Advanced clinic students will continue to develop their legal and advocacy skills, improve their leadership and supervisory abilities, and increase their substantive and practical knowledge. Student must have successfully completed the Civil Litigation Clinic or the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice-Kentucky Clinic to enroll. This is a two- or three- credit, pass/fail course.
Contact the Clinical Program
Ellen H. Richards House
630 Maxwelton Court
Lexington, KY 40506
Phone: (859) 257-4692
Fax: (859) 323-1461
Hours: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Please call for an appointment.