John Jay Legal Services, Inc.

Pace's John Jay Legal Services currently offers direct representation clinical experience in four different areas: criminal trial advocacy,  disability rights litigation and transactional representation; immigration and immigrants' rights; and investor rights/securities arbitrations. The central purpose of a direct representation clinical program is to help students make the transition from doing what students do to doing what lawyers do, and to make this transition in a thoughtful, purposeful manner. The key is that the student is the lawyer—not the assistant, not the researcher, but the lawyer.

Externship opportunities include environmental law enforcement, criminal justice, family court, health law, judicial clerkships, and general civil advocacy on behalf of the disadvantaged. In addition, sufficient sections of simulated trial advocacy courses are offered to ensure that every student who wants that experience can have it. Our simulation-based skill development courses include pretrial civil litigation; interviewing, counseling, and negotiating; and buying and selling a business.

Our general phone line is (914) 422-4333.

Margaret M. Flint
Executive Director
John Jay Legal Services