Founded by Berkeley Law students in 1988, the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) is Berkeley’s community-based teaching clinic. EBCLC provides high-quality training and supervision to law students and first-rate legal services to low-income clients in Alameda County. Nearly forty clinical supervising attorneys and approximately 150 law students under their supervision provide free legal services to over 7,000 clients annually. EBCLC also engages in ground-up policy work through various strategies that include litigation, legislative advocacy and technical support for community education and organizing.
In five broad program areas, EBCLC offers eight clinical placements (more details here):
- Clean Slate Clinic (Litigation/Criminal/Employment)
- Consumer Justice Clinic (Civil Litigation)
- Community Economic Justice Clinic (Transactional/Small Business/Movement Law)
- Education Access Clinic (Education/Youth)
- Health & Welfare Clinic (Multidisciplinary/Administrative)
- Housing Law Clinic (Civil Litigation)
- Immigration Law Clinic (Administrative/Litigation)
- Youth Defender Clinic (Criminal/Litigation)
For more information about the East Bay Community Law Center, click here.
For more information on how to apply for clinic in the fall, click here.
Questions? Contact Clinical Director Seema N. Patel (seema.patel@berkeley.edu) or EBCLC Clinical Administrative Assistance Jelitza Herrera (jherrera@ebclc.org)