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John Jay Legal Services
Pace's John Jay Legal Services currently offers direct representation clinical
experience in four different areas: criminal trial advocacy, disability rights litigation and transactional representation;
immigration and immigrants' rights; and securities
arbitration. The central purpose of a direct representation clinical program is to help
students make the transition from doing what students do to doing what lawyers do, and to
make this transition in a thoughtful, purposeful manner. The key is that the student is
the lawyer -- not the assistant, not the researcher, but the lawyer.
Externship opportunities include
environmental law enforcement, criminal justice, family court, health
law, judicial clerkships, and general civil advocacy on
behalf of the disadvantaged. In addition, sufficient sections of simulated trial advocacy
courses are offered to ensure that every student who wants that experience can have it.
Our simulation-based skill development courses include pretrial civil litigation;
interviewing, counseling, and negotiating ;and buying and
selling a business.
Margaret M. Flint
Executive Director
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For a semester I had a judicial clerkship with a federal judge. I researched issues, wrote bench memoranda on contracts and torts, and sat in on criminal cases. It enhanced my writing and editing skills. As part of a judicial clerkship mentoring program, I wrote a decision, based on the facts of a real case, that served as my resume. It led to a two-year clerkship with a federal magistrate in Connecticut.
Jerri Cheverko '00, B.S. in Psychology, Rutgers College, Editor-in-Chief, Pace Law Review, Judicial Externship
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