Legal Clinic Courses Prerequisites and Requirements

Business Innovations Clinic – 4 credit hours
Professor Doug Cortes, Director

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

Delta Experience Intersession – 1 credit hour
Professor Suzanne Penn, Director

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

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 ProfessionOne 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

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

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

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.

Tax Clinic – 4 or 6 hours
Professor Alicia Mitchell, Director

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

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