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Public Interest at Miami Law
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Whether a student's ultimate goal is to work in the public sector, or integrate pro bono work as a component of a future legal career, Miami Law features a wide range of public interest opportunities which enable students to acquire valuable, hands-on lawyering skills. The HOPE Public Interest Resource Center helps students understand the array of public interest opportunities and provides information, guidance and training to law students dedicated to community service and advocacy.

What are the opportunities?

Clinics
Miami Law's clinics provide students with the unparalleled opportunity to work with clients, serve the public, and acquire valuable legal skills. Clinics include: Bankruptcy Assistance Clinic, Capital Defense Project, Children & Youth Law Clinic, Federal Appellate Clinic, Health & Elder Law Clinic, Human Rights Clinic, Immigration Clinic, Miami Innocence Project, Tenants' Rights Clinic

The Center for Ethics & Public Service (CEPS)
CEPS offers a variety of programs including the Historic Black Church Program serving Miami's West Grove residents and PREP, a program providing legal ethics education to the South Florida Community.

Miami STREET Law
STREET LAW is an educational, legal outreach program that trains current law students to teach law, public policy and ethics at schools throughout Miami-Dade County.

Externships in the Public Interest Sector
Miami Law has a variety of externship opportunities through both our Career Development Office's Externship Program and the Litigation Skills Externship Placement Program.

HOPE Public Interest Resource Center (HOPE)
HOPE facilitates a number of legal advocacy and community outreach projects for law students to participate in and to work with various underserved and at-risk populations locally, nationally and internationally. HOPE also offers competitive programs that provide funding for public interest summer opportunities through the Miami Scholars and the HOPE Fellowship programs.