CLAS was established in 2004 in response to 9/11 and the desire of the law school community to help active-duty members of the armed forces and their families for whom retaining counsel would be an undue hardship. It remains unique in American legal education. Students have represented clients from all armed services in civil litigation, adjudication and negotiation regarding consumer-protection, family-law, landlord-tenant, contract, military-law and entitlement matters. Students are supervised by law school instructors or private practitioners with subject matter expertise, and receive weekly classroom instruction on legal ethics, client interviewing, and procedural and substantive issues relevant to their practice.
