Three people standing together indoors, wearing name tags and posing for a group photo.

Michelangelo Lamberty ’26, Sarah Sheffield '26, and Staff Attorney Alyssa Bergsten attended the Fall 2025 Name Change Clinic held in Buffalo, NY.

Experiential Learning

From Thailand to New York City, moot court competitions to law journals, law students have several opportunities to gain legal skills and experiences from outside the classroom.

  • Clinical Legal Education
    12/1/25
    Student lawyers work under the supervision of skilled faculty to engage in practical legal thinking and ethical practice through client representation, policy development, and effective problem-solving work in experiential settings.
  • Externships & Judicial Externships
    11/21/25
    Externships and Judicial Externships provide law students with unique legal and public service experience as they work in a variety of government and non-profit organizations.
  • Practicums
    1/13/26
    Our Practicum courses provide immersive learning experiences for law students through in-field work assisting and observing practicing attorneys, followed up with weekly classroom work with a professor, exploring the law and reflecting on the process of becoming an attorney.
  • Pro Bono & Access to Justice
    2/18/25
    A long tradition of providing pro bono services to the Western New York community and beyond, our pro bono work helps low- and middle-income individuals and community organizations navigate a wide variety of the legal issues that confront them.
  • Summer Fellowships
    2/27/26
    Through the combined dedication and support of the School of Law, law alumni, student donors, and members of the legal community, our students have the opportunity to spend their summers working in a number of institutions who are committed to public interest law.
  • New York City Program in Business and Law
    3/3/26
    Students in our New York City Program in Business and Law spend a semester learning in New York City.
  • The Advocacy Institute
    9/17/25
    Launched in 2014, the Advocacy Institute is dedicated to helping students cultivate the skills, discipline, and ethics necessary to become creative and principled advocates for their future clients.
  • Law Journals
    6/9/25
    The School of Law’s wide array of scholarly law journals provides students with the opportunity to develop research and writing skills and make important contributions to legal scholarship.
  • Study Abroad
    4/30/25
    The practice of law has become increasingly globalized with attorney and client often located in different countries.
  • Rural Justice Initiative
    2/27/26
    The Rural Justice Initiative expands access to legal services for individuals in New York’s rural communities through partnerships and pro bono efforts led by UB School of Law.