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The University of Arkansas School of Law Legal Clinic provides a needed resource for the community and a transition from law student to practicing lawyer for those students enrolled. For over 30 years, the clinic's services have been provided free of charge to government agencies, charitable organizations and individuals who need a lawyer but cannot afford one. Representation of individuals is limited to those whose incomes are at or below 150 percent of the U.S. Department of Labor poverty guidelines. Student attorneys are responsible for representing clinic clients.

The School of Law Legal Clinic serves two purposes:

1. It provides law students with the opportunity to gain basic competencies in specific areas of practice commonly encountered by entry-level lawyers; and
2. It extends and refines students' basic lawyering skills, including interviewing, counseling, negotiating, oral and written advocacy, researching, legal drafting, and utilizing persuasive and expositive writing.

The Legal Clinic is also a needed resource for the community. Student attorneys assist government agencies in serving the public and provide legal services to charitable non-profit organizations that serve our region and Arkansas. Over the course of the 2009-10 academic year, law students volunteered more than 2,100 hours of pro bono service. In 2007, students in the clinics provided representation in 720 legal matters. During the 2006-07 year, a student in the Civil Clinic helped a client obtain legal custody of a child that was left by his parents, and another student helped the client complete adoption of the child. Student attorneys in the Transactional Clinic incorporated and obtained tax-exempt status for new charitable organizations serving our community and region. These are just a few examples of the Legal Clinic's continuing tradition of service.