Mills Legal Clinic
Clinic Overview
Experience — solving real problems, serving real clients — is an essential ingredient in the training of every SLS student.
Founded in 2005, the Mills Legal Clinic is a vital part of Stanford Law’s mission to prepare every student for the challenges, responsibilities and rewards of a career as a legal professional. Providing individualized, hands-on learning opportunities, this intensive training ground shapes future lawyers of every career aspiration, whether they choose to work in a large firm, become entrepreneurs, make policy or engage in full-time public service. And because clinic is a full-time experience — an SLS distinction — you can immerse yourself without distractions.
Message from the Director
In the Stanford clinics, you’ll see SLS students practicing law in real cases, for real clients — in courtrooms, boardrooms and legislatures. You’ll see the profound differences they are making in the lives of their clients and how the lessons they have learned in the classroom are coming to life in the clinic.
Juliet Brodie
Associate Dean of Clinical Education and Director
Mills Legal Clinic and Community Law Clinic
News from MLC
Where Are They Now? An Interview with Fred Smith (JD ’07)
For this installment of our “Where Are They Now?” alumni series, we caught up with SLS and Supreme Court Litigation Clinic alumni Fred Smith, Jr. (JD '07). After graduating from Stanford Law School, Fred clerked for Judge Myron Thompson of the Middle District of Alabama, Judge Barrington D. Parker, Jr.…
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Experienced Business Lawyers Visit Organizations and Transactions Clinic
ELC Students Defend Local Control Over Oil Rail Projects
Religious Liberty Clinic Students Lead Deposition Efforts
California Court of Appeals Hears Oral Arguments in School Funding Case --Youth & Education Law Project Clients Say State Violates Fundamental Right to Education by Shortchanging Students
Immigrants' Rights Clinic Files Lawsuit to Uncover Federal Government Policies on Deportation Procedures for Recent Central American Refugees
Clinics Offered
Pro Bono Project at MLC
Social Security Disability Pro Bono Project
The SLS Social Security Disability Project (SSDP), the Law School’s only in-house pro bono project, gives students the opportunity to work directly with local homeless clients.
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Stanford Center for Public Research and Leadership
The Stanford Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL), a partnership between Stanford and Columbia University, prepares students for research, consulting, and leadership positions in public education organizations committed to improving the life chances of all children. The program brings together upper-level Stanford graduate students in education, business, and law to study and engage in consulting projects serving public- and social-sector organizations undertaking and supporting transformational change in K-12 education and in the public sector as a whole.
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