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Legal Clinic Courses Prerequisites and Requirements

Business Innovations Clinic 4 credit hours Professor Doug Cortes, Director Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
Yes	48	8	First-year curriculum Legal Profession

Consumer Protection Clinic, Litigation Clinic 4 credit hours Professor Amy Pritchard, Director Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
Yes	48	4-6	First-year curriculum, including Civil Procedure I and II Evidence Legal Profession One of the following Criminal Procedure courses: Criminal Procedure Pre-Trial Criminal Procedure Trial Criminal Procedure Post-Trial Arkansas Criminal Trial Practice

Consumer Protection Clinic, Policy Clinic 3 credit hours Professor Amy Pritchard, Director Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
No	48	4-6	First-year curriculum Legal Profession

Delta Experience Intersession 1 credit hour Professor Suzanne Penn, Director Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
No	30	???	First-year curriculum Students must be able to travel to the Arkansas Delta with their professor.

Delta Divorce Clinic 4 credit hours 6 credit hours Professor Suzanne Penn, Director Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
Yes	48	8	Delta Experience Intersession ONLY IF YOU ARE ENROLLED IN THE SUMMER SEMESTER DELTA DIVORCE CLINIC (students enrolled in the fall or spring semester Delta Divorce Clinic are not required to take the intersession course) First-year curriculum, including Civil Procedure I and II Evidence Legal Profession One of the following Criminal Procedure courses: Criminal Procedure Pre-Trial Criminal Procedure Trial Criminal Procedure Post-Trial Arkansas Criminal Trial Practice Students must be able to travel to the Arkansas Delta with their professor.

Family Law Clinic 4 credit hours 6 credit hours Professor Beth Levi, Instructor Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
Yes	48	4	First-year curriculum, including Civil Procedure I and II Evidence Legal Profession One of the following Criminal Procedure courses: Criminal Procedure Pre-Trial Criminal Procedure Trial Criminal Procedure Post-Trial Arkansas Criminal Trial Practice

Judicial Practicum 3 credit hours
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
No	30	10	First-year curriculum

Mediation Clinic 4 credit hours Professor Kelly Browe-Olson, Director Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
No	30	8	First-year curriculum

Prosecutor Practicum 3 credit hours
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
No	30	10	First-year curriculum Criminal Procedure Pre-Trial

Public Service Externship 3 credit hours Associate Dean Kelly Terry, Director Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
No, although it is helpful for some externships	30	25	First-year curriculum Some externships require completion of additional prerequisite courses. See externship descriptions.

Tax Clinic 4 or 6 hours Professor Alicia Mitchell, Director Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
No	30	6	First-year curriculum Legal Profession Federal Income Taxation (may be taken concurrently with Tax Clinic)

Veterans Legal Services Clinic 6 credit hours Professor Rebecca Feldmann, Director Email
Rule 15 Certification Required?	Completed Credit Hours Required	Number of students per semester	Prerequisite Courses/Other Requirements
No, but students must meet the requirements of 38 C.F.R. § 14.629(c)(3) once enrolled in the clinic. Additionally, the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has requirements that students handling an appeal at that level must meet.	30	6	First-year curriculum Legal Profession