Apply for a Clinic

Want to learn while doing? Want to help a client with a legal matter? Apply for a clinic!

Applications

We are now accepting applications for the Spring 2025 clinics. The deadline for the Spring 2025 application for clinics is Friday, November 8, 2024 at 5:00pm. 

Clinics are popular, so acceptance to a Clinic is not guaranteed. We recommend that you register for a full schedule in case there is not room for you in a clinic next semester. If you are approved for a clinic and submit all the required paperwork, we will help you adjust your schedule.

Spring 2025 Clinics

Bar Applicant Documentation

All graduates who complete a law clinic will need to document their pro bono work in order to submit an application for admission to practice in NY.

For more information, see Pro Bono Requirement - Documenting Your Pro Bono Work for Clinic Students

Before Submitting Your Application

Applicants should be aware that all enrolled clinic students are considered members of the School of Law’s Clinical Legal Education Program Law Practice, and will be admitted to practice under a practice order. Accordingly, enrolling in a UB law clinic requires students to agree to abide by law firm policies and procedures, including appropriate conflicts checks and confidentiality commitments that may go beyond matters in the particular clinic in which the student enrolls. This will be a substantial commitment both for the semester(s) in which the student is in a clinic, and thereafter. All new clinic student attorneys are expected to enroll for at least 4 credits during their first semester.

Because of the intensity of the experience, students may not enroll in more than one clinic, practicum, or externship per semester.

Clinics are popular, so acceptance to a clinic is not guaranteed. We recommend that you register for a full schedule in case there is not room for you in a clinic next semester. If you are approved for a clinic and submit all the required paperwork, we will help you adjust your schedule.

Questions regarding the clinical program? Email law-clinic@buffalo.edu.

Application Instructions

To apply for a clinic, please:

  1. Complete the online application. You must list different first and second choices for a Clinic. You may list a third choice if you wish.
  2. Submit the online application by providing your electronic signature. Please be aware that you are now required to upload your Cover Letter, Resume, Unofficial Transcript, Writing Sample, and Conflict Inventory Acknowledgment along with your application.
  3. Submit your online application by Friday, November 8, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. 
  4. You will be notified by email of whether or not you have been selected for a clinic. Students will be reviewed by their #1 choice initially. If not selected, your application materials will be forwarded to your #2 choice.
  5. If you accept a position in a clinic you will be part of the clinical law firm. Thus, your professors plan around your presence in the clinic. Accordingly, accepting an offer to participate in a clinic means you agree to stay enrolled absent extraordinary circumstances and may not withdraw without consulting your professor and the Director of Clinical Legal Education.
  6. Enrolled students must complete other necessary forms (for the court and the law firm) for registration. Your registration will not be approved until you submit all required paperwork, and your approval will be rescinded if you do not submit all paperwork within the required deadlines.
JD/MSW Students

All JD/MSW students should consult directly with Melinda Saran regarding their choice of Clinic, or a Law and Social Work placement, for their JD/MSW Advanced year.