Community Development Clinic
Students in the Community Development Law Clinic learn transactional and business lawyering skills while representing non-profit organizations and small, urban entrepreneurs. The clinic often works in concert with community-based business centers and other professionals to provide clients with comprehensive professional consulting services. For more information please see the clinic’s website.
This site provides resources for learning and practicing lawyering skills such as legal research and writing, client interviewing and client representation in hearings and court proceedings — in keeping with the highest standards of the profession.
Professional Resources
Guides for Clinic Assignments
- Clinic Research Guide
- Clinic Research Powerpoint
- Preparing a Research Plan & Log
- Research & Writing:
- Memorandum of Law
- Federal Legal Research
- D.C. Legal Research
- Finding & Preparing Federal Legislative Histories
- Finding & Preparing D.C. Legislative Histories
Public Online Resources
- Statutory Law
- Official D.C. Code
- U.S. Code
- Note: Print and annotated versions may be more useful
- Regulations
- Government Business Websites
- D.C. Bar
- D.C. Business Resource Center
- D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue
- U.S. Small Business Administration
- U.S. Senate Comm. on Small Business & Entrepreneurship
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service-Business
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service-Charities & Nonprofits
- USA.gov- Business & Nonprofits
- U.S. Government Business Link
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Resources for UDC-DCSL Law Students
(signin or passwords required)
- CALI
- HeinOnline
- LegalTrac
- LexisNexis
- Westlaw
- Wilson Index to Periodicals and Books