Public Service
Center for Law and Public Service
The Center for Law and Public Service promotes public service at the College of Law by providing opportunities for students to engage in public interest law, fostering dialogue about current legal services and policy issues, and encouraging students to become leaders who seek creative solutions toward achieving equal access to justice in society.
Clinical Law Program
The Clinical Law Program offers an opportunity to qualified third-year law students to represent clients under faculty supervision. The objective of the clinic is to expose students to all phases of lawyering, client interviewing, and counseling; advocacy in trial courts, before administrative tribunals and in appellate contexts; drafting of briefs and pleadings; negotiating; and other skills. Heavy emphasis is placed on the development of the lawyer role with particular attention to the Rules of Professional Responsibility.
Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
The West Virginia University College of Law’s Entrepreneurship Law Clinic offers start-up companies, small businesses, non-profits, and individuals legal services in areas of counseling for a product plan or business organization; licensing; employee and contractor agreements; intellectual property; financing and venture capital; planning and negotiation; dispute resolution; and generalized assistance in business formation, planning, and strategy.
Immigration Law Clinic
The West Virginia University College of Law Immigration Law Clinic (ILC) has served scores of clients throughout the West Virginia and western Pennsylvania region since 1996 when it began as the WVU Immigration Law. The clinic serves foreign citizens who are facing deportation, asylum, and other immigration proceedings.
Public Interest Advocates
The PIA exists to sponsor summer fellowships and other opportunities for WVU law students in the public interest field and to promote interest in public interest lawyering.