The General Practice Clinic replicates the experience students are likely to encounter in establishing a solo practice or joining a general practice law firm in Arkansas or in surrounding states. Student attorneys represent clients in civil, criminal, and federal courts in Northwest Arkansas. The skills emphasized include interviewing, fact investigation, case-theory development, motion practice, discovery, negotiations, and trial practice.

Students are licensed under Rule XV and appear as the attorney of record for the client. All student legal work is supervised, reviewed, and critiqued by clinic faculty. Judges and clients also give feedback on student performance.

Students handle bankruptcy cases; federal administrative matters; defenses of juveniles accused of criminal acts of delinquency; civil cases, including landlord-tenant law, domestic law (divorce, adoption, paternity actions, and child custody), and consumer law (contract, fraud, replevin, probate, tort, and contempt); or represent charitable non-profits in transactional legal matters.

This clinic is offered only during the summer.

Prerequisites:
        Students must have taken basic evidence, civil procedure, criminal procedure, professional responsibility, and trial advocacy and completed at least 48 credit hours at an accredited law school and otherwise be eligible for licensing under Rule XV, Rules Governing Admission to the Bar, and have taken Trial Advocacy.