Public Interest Programs Offered at Pace

In addition to courses specifically geared to practicing in the area of public interest, Pace offers a comprehensive program of clinical education directed by one of the country’s top clinical professors and taught by full-time, tenured, and tenure-track faculty located at the Law School. Among a stellar roster of direct client representation clinics. Pace boasts the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, a model for similar clinics across the country, the Securities Arbitration Clinic, representing small investors in their claims against brokers, and the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Clinic which serves a misdemeanor unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
 

CLICK HERE to view a PILC video on finding & funding public interest and government summer internships, as well as information on LSPIN grants, Federal Work Study, PILSO, and on-campus clinics and centers.
 

DIRECT REPRESENTATION CLINICS

• Prosecution of Domestic Violence
• Criminal Defense
• "Equal Justice America" Disability Rights
• Health Law Estate and Health Care Planning
• Indigent Criminal Defense
• Appellate Advocacy
• Securities Arbitration
• Environmental Litigation

EXTERNSHIP PROGRAMS

• Criminal Justice - Prosecutorial
• Environmental Law (also offered in the summer in Washington, DC)
• Family Court
• Judicial Clerkship
• Legal Services/Public Interest/Health Law
• Federal Legal Assistance Practicum

GUIDED EXTERNSHIPS

• New York Legal Assistance Group
• City of New Rochelle
• Land Use Law Center

SIMULATION COURSES

• Criminal Appellate Lawyering
• Pretrial Civil Litigation Simulation
• Interviewing/Counseling/Negotiating
• Advanced Appellate Advocacy
• Trial Advocacy
• Alternative Dispute Resolution