Arizona State University will this summer launch the law firm which will provide legal services at an affordable price to locals.
The Dean of the law school, Douglas Sylvester, told the New York Times the move was inspired by a visit to the Minnesota based Mayo Clinic and a conversation with the Dean of the Mayo School who said his students gained clinical experience by closely supervised hospital rounds. According to the New York Times, he realised the solution was ‘a teaching hospital for law graduates’. Arizona State University’s nonprofit law firm will take on 30 paid graduates over the next few years.
Leading the way
Other US law schools are looking to follow suit with the University of California Hastings College of Law, the Ciry University of New York and Rutgers University going down this route.
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