Impact Area

The Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic (IEC) at WashULaw handles environmental and community health cases. All cases are pro bono and are mostly concentrated to Missouri and Illinois with some being on the national level. Unlike many other clinics, the IEC work as an interdisciplinary team including students from law, engineering, arts and sciences, public health, medicine, business, and architecture.

The Intellectual Property Clinic at WashULaw provides legal services to the St. Louis community pro bono. Law students have the opportunity to develop their understanding and application of intellectual property law. Intellectual property law matters include copyright matters, patent matters, right of publicity matters, trademark matters, and trade secret matters.

The Immigration Law Clinic represents St. Louis clients in immigration proceedings. Students are able to assist with issues such as naturalization, adjustment of status, family-reunification, obtaining employment benefits, deportation defense, and petitions for asylum.

WashULaw students in the First Amendment Clinic provide legal assistance to St. Louis organizations, students, journalists, and citizens who are dealing with First Amendment rights. The clinic focuses primarily on local and regional issues as they help with legal research all the way to oral and written advocacy.

WashULaw students in the Entrepreneurship Clinic provide advice and legal assistance to individuals and entities in all entrepreneurship endeavors. The clinic helps with start-ups and small businesses and non-profit organizations.

In collaboration with the St. Louis County office of the Missouri State Public Defender System, students in the WashULaw Criminal Justice Clinic have the opportunity to help St. Louis adults who have been charged with misdemeanor or felony offenses. Students may assist with serving as counsel on preliminary hearings to helping with to assisting with Circuit Court Dockets and probation revocation hearings.

Public Interest Fellowships allow WashULaw graduates to experience public interest practice. Students are able to pursue their passions and interests while helping St. Louis citizens.

The WashULaw Civil Rights and Mediation Clinic focuses on housing, education, and consumer discrimination. Clinic students provide representation for low-income St. Louis clients on a multitude of different legal subjects ranging from housing to education to municipal court claims.

The WashULaw Clinical Education Program is considered one of the finest in the country. Established in 1973, the clinical education program allows WashU’s law students, and sometimes students outside of the Law School, to work to provide legal advice and litigation to clients in the St. Louis area.

The externship program at WashULaw provides students with the opportunity to develop legal skills as they work in law offices and legal departments of non-profits, corporations, and government. Students can be assigned to a placement arranged by the school or they can find their own at different St. Louis corporations.