Apply for a Clinic

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.

Please review the instructions below carefully. All interested students should apply for a School of Law Legal Clinic via the online application.

• Civil Rights and Transparency Clinic
• Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic
  
• Entrepreneurship Law Center Clinic
• Family Violence and Women’s Rights Clinic
• Mediation Clinic (Spring only)

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.

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 Wednesday, March 27, 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.