Legal Clinic Application - Summer and Fall 2026 - William H. Bowen School of Law

Application Details

The deadline to apply for clinic courses is 12:00PM (noon) Wednesday, February 25, 2026.

IMPORTANT: Please follow all application instructions/prompts carefully while entering your information to ensure your application can be considered.

Only submit one application. Additional submissions will not be considered. If you would like to be considered for other clinics as backup options should your primary choice be unavailable, you will have the opportunity to select up to two alternative courses at the end of the application form before submitting it.

This application is specific to the clinic you are applying for. To view details of any clinic (including prerequisites), select that clinic in the first section of the form. The rest of the application will be tailored to that clinic course. Feel free to click on any clinic and view the description and prerequisites. Don’t worry. Nothing is submitted until you hit “submit” at the end.

Remember to click “submit” at the bottom of the form. Once you do, you should see a message on the screen confirming you have submitted your application. If you do not, please contact Larry Rhodes in the Legal Clinic. Email [email protected] or call 501-916-5424 to ensure he received it.

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Clinic class you are requesting(Required)

Delta Experience – Summer

Delta Divorce Clinic – Summer

Delta Divorce Clinic – Fall

Family Law Litigation Clinic – Summer

Family Law Litigation Clinic – Fall

Mediation Clinic – Fall

Veterans Legal Services Clinic – Fall

Are you requesting the 4-hour clinic or the 6-hour clinic?

4 Hours

6 Hours

Family Law Litigation Clinic students assist clients who are pursuing court action to obtain relief in the areas of family law, including divorces, custody cases, and guardianships. Six-hour students should allot an average of 20 hours per week for casework and document preparation, required class attendance, and a weekly case status review (CSR) with the supervising attorney/professor and student colleague. Four-hour students should allot an average of 14 hours per week. Casework tasks include: preparing for and conducting client and witness interviews, investigating “facts”, researching statutes, case law, and rules of procedure, evidence, and ethics related to your case, drafting and filing complaints and motions, preparing discovery, decrees and orders, negotiating with opposing counsel or parties, developing direct and cross questions for hearings, and handling hearings both contested and uncontested.

Students must be eligible for Rule XV certification.

Orientation for the Family Law Litigation Clinic is a 3-day session which meets prior to the first day of classes.

Family Law Litigation Clinic students assist clients who are pursuing court action to obtain relief in the areas of family law, including divorces, custody cases, and guardianships. The summer clinic is a four-hour course. Students should allot an average of 14 hours per week. Casework tasks include: preparing for and conducting client and witness interviews, investigating “facts”, researching statutes, case law, and rules of procedure, evidence, and ethics related to your case, drafting and filing complaints and motions, preparing discovery, decrees and orders, negotiating with opposing counsel or parties, developing direct and cross questions for hearings, and handling hearings both contested and uncontested.

Students must be eligible for Rule XV certification.

Orientation for the Family Law Litigation Clinic is a 3-day session which meets prior to the first day of classes.

The Mediation Clinic includes training in mediation and negotiation skills through lecture, discussion, simulations, observation, written case studies, and co-mediation of actual cases. Students should allot sufficient time for class attendance and required attendance at mediations. Student work focuses on Special Education mediations and facilitations as well as multiple other types of mediation including Zero to Three facilitations, FINS mediations and Access & Visitation mediations. Students will write up several case studies and also team-teach one class topic of their choice.

Mediation Clinic has a MANDATORY 4 day orientation session which meets the week prior to the first day of classes to allow students to complete the training component for the Arkansas Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission mediation certification process.

This intersession course is an introduction to educating and counseling clients in an intake clinical setting in the Arkansas Delta. In this intersession course, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year students actually travel to counties in the eastern Arkansas Delta to participate in holding community education, outreach, and client intakes. These events are held at local libraries. This course is a prerequisite to the summer Delta Divorce Clinic only.

You earn one law school credit hour.

The Delta Divorce Clinic provides direct representation to low-income clients chosen through The Delta Experience. Students taking Delta Divorce Clinic must be Rule XV eligible. As such, the Delta Divorce Clinic is only open to upper-level students. Students earn four hours of law school credit for this course. Students must be able to travel with their professor to the Arkansas Delta to conduct follow-up interviews with clients and for court observations and appearances. Students conduct follow-up interviews with clients and perform fact investigations to ensure a successful outcome in divorce cases. After obtaining Rule XV consents from clients, Delta Divorce Clinic students prepare divorce complaints and motions for fee waivers for low-income clients. Next, students obtain service on defendants and write final divorce decrees. Students will then represent their clients in divorce hearings. Students should allot an average of 17 hours per week for Delta Summer or 20 hours per week for Delta Fall. Delta Experience is a prerequisite for Delta Summer but not for Delta Fall.

Students applying for Delta Fall who have not had Delta Experience will be required to attend orientation prior to the first day of fall classes.

The Delta Divorce Clinic provides direct representation to low-income clients chosen through The Delta Experience. Students taking Delta Clinic must be Rule XV eligible. As such, the Delta Divorce Clinic is only open to upper-level students. Students earn six hours of law school credit for this course. Students must be able to travel with their professor to the Arkansas Delta to conduct follow-up interviews with clients and for court observations and appearances. Students conduct follow-up interviews with clients and perform fact investigations to ensure a successful outcome in divorce cases. After obtaining Rule XV consents from clients, Delta Divorce Clinic students prepare divorce complaints and motions for fee waivers for low-income clients. Next, students obtain service on defendants and write final divorce decrees. Students will then represent their clients in divorce hearings. There is a MANDATORY three-day orientation for this clinic that is held the week before classes begin.

The Veterans Legal Services Clinic (VLSC) is a clinic that provides Bowen law students a trauma-informed, service-oriented learning experience while helping Arkansas veterans access benefits available to them under federal law. Clinic students will help veterans who experienced trauma during their service address the barriers they may face in accessing VA benefits. In representing their veteran clients, students will develop many critical, transferable lawyering skills, such as client interviewing and counseling, fact investigation, legal research and writing, case planning, development of legal theory, written and oral advocacy, and how to learn an area of law that may be new to them. In addition, students will explore issues related to professional responsibility.

Orientation for the Veterans Legal Services Clinic is a MANDATORY 2½ day session which meets prior to the first day of classes.

PART I: STUDENT INFORMATION

Name(Required)

First Last

Your ualr.edu email address. Do not enter your personal email address.(Required)

Student ID (Universal Workday ID)(Required)

Address(Required)

Street Address City State ZIP Code

Phone(Required)

PART II: PREREQUISITES

There are no prerequisites required for Mediation Clinic.

This section does not apply to the Delta Experience.

The Delta Experience is a prerequisite to Delta Divorce Summer Clinic. Have you completed the Delta Experience?(Required)

Yes

Rule XV Eligibility(Required)

This is required for the Delta Divorce Clinic and the Family Law Litigation Clinic. You must have successfully completed all of the following courses before you can participate in these clinics:

Civil Procedure

Evidence

Professional Responsibility

Other Relevant Courses for Rule XV Eligibility(Required)

In addition, you must also have successfully completed at least one of the following:

Criminal Procedure Pretrial

Criminal Procedure Trial

Criminal Procedure Post-Trial

Arkansas Criminal Trial Practice

Veterans Legal Services Clinic(Required)

Note that Professional Responsibility can be taken concurrently with the Veterans Legal Services Clinic course. If you have not yet taken Professional Responsibility but will be enrolled in it during the same term for which you are applying for the Veterans Legal Services Clinic, please indicate this in the “pertinent classes” field directly below.

Professional Responsibility

Please list any other pertinent classes.(Required)

Please list any other pertinent classes. Relevant courses include, among others, Administrative Law, Advanced Appellate Advocacy, Advanced Litigation Skills, Evidence, Gender & the Law, Interviewing & Counseling, Lawyering Skills, Race and the Law, as well as previous clinic experience and relevant externship experience.(Required)

During the course, students may not work for the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, or the Department of Human Services and may not engage in any other activities that would reasonably appear to create a conflict of interest

PART III: STUDENT ACADEMIC INFORMATION

Are you a part-time student?(Required)

Yes

Year of Graduation(Required)

Semester of Graduation(Required)

Fall

Spring

How many credit hours will you have completed at the end of the current semester?(Required)

Have you applied for an externship position during the upcoming fall semester (or summer term if applying for a summer clinic)?(Required)

Yes

Will you have completed 48 credit hours of law school prior to the upcoming fall semester (or summer term if applying for a summer clinic)?(Required)

Yes

Are you currently on academic probation?(Required)

Yes

Do you plan to be employed during the upcoming fall semester?(Required)

Yes

Do you plan to be employed during the upcoming summer term?(Required)

Yes

State your place(s) of employment.(Required)

Please briefly state why you are excited about working in the Delta.(Required)

Describe any experiences you have had working with low income families.(Required)

Describe your experiences in public speaking and/or teaching.(Required)

PART IV: LET US KNOW

Have you previously taken a clinic or externship course?(Required)

Yes

Please briefly state why you are interested in enrolling in the clinic.(Required)

During the Mediation Clinic course, students may not work for the Department of Human Services, any other law office representing clients in dependency/neglect cases, the Prosecutor’s Office or the Public Defender and may not engage in any other activities that would reasonably appear to create a conflict of interest.

List any potential conflicts of interest and all planned employment and/or unpaid clerkships that may prevent you from taking this clinic course.(Required)

Please use this space to tell us anything else you would like us to know as part of the clinic selection process.(Required)

PART V: UNDERSTANDINGS AND AGREEMENTS

Please indicate that you understand and agree with each of the following statements.

I will not be taking other classes or working during Delta Experience.(Required)

Yes, I understand.

I understand that I am required to enroll in Delta Experience as a prerequisite to taking Summer Delta Divorce Clinic unless I have previously taken the Delta Experience.(Required)

Yes, I understand.

By checking yes, I am stating that I have read this document and understand the requirements and commitment involved in taking Delta Experience.(Required)

Yes

Students who are accepted in the Mediation Clinic cannot take the Weekend Mediation Seminar.(Required)

I understand that if accepted in the Mediation Clinic, I will not be able to take a Weekend Mediation Seminar course.

Yes, I understand

I am aware that attendance at orientation the week prior to the first week of classes is MANDATORY and that I am required to attend all of the orientation for my clinic or I may be dropped from the course without prior notice or have other consequences imposed.(Required)

Yes, I am aware.

I am aware that enrollment and attendance in Delta Experience is MANDATORY and that I am required to attend all of Delta Experience, or I may be dropped from the Delta Divorce Clinic Summer course without prior notice or have other consequences imposed.(Required)

Yes, I am aware.

I have disclosed all my conflicts of interest or potential conflicts of interest.(Required)

Yes

By checking yes, I am stating that I have read this document and understand the requirements and commitment involved in taking a Legal Clinic course.(Required)

The final deadline to alert clinic staff and drop a clinic course is the first day of the reading period for the semester prior to your clinic class.

Yes

PART VI: OPTIONS

In the event your first clinic choice is unavailable, you may share your preference for a second and even third clinic option for which to be considered.

NOTE: Though it is not mandatory to provide second and third options, each additional option must be for a different clinic.

Second Clinic Option

Delta Experience – Summer

Delta Divorce Clinic – Summer

Delta Divorce Clinic – Fall

Family Law Litigation Clinic – Summer

Family Law Litigation Clinic – Fall

Mediation Clinic – Fall

Veterans Legal Services Clinic – Fall

Third Clinic Option

Delta Experience – Summer

Delta Divorce Clinic – Summer

Delta Divorce Clinic – Fall

Family Law Litigation Clinic – Summer

Family Law Litigation Clinic – Fall

Mediation Clinic – Fall

Veterans Legal Services Clinic – Fall

For Delta Divorce Clinic and Family Law Litigation Clinic, you must qualify for Rule XV certification: you must have completed 48 law credit hours, and have successfully completed Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Professional Responsibility. In addition, you must also have taken one of the following courses: Pretrial, Trial Process, or Arkansas Criminal Trial Process. If you have not completed these prerequisites, please select a different optional course.

Orientation for the Mediation Clinic is a MANDATORY 4-day session which meets the week prior to the first day of classes.

The Veterans Legal Services Clinic requires that you have taken Professional Responsibility.

Briefly explain your interest in your alternate choice(s).

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