Abrahams Legal Clinic

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The Milton R. Abrahams Legal Clinic, the civil practice clinic at Creighton University School of Law, provides invaluable experience for our law students—and free legal assistance on civil matters for low-income residents of Douglas County, Nebraska. The clinic, staffed by Creighton law students, operates as a small law firm.

Clinic attorneys will not respond to legal questions by email. All requests for legal advice or assistance should be directed to 402.280.3068 for an intake screening.

Student Experience

In the Milton R. Abrahams Legal Clinic, students learn about the range of legal issues that arise from inequalities within our society and the challenges lawyers face representing clients with serious economic, intellectual, cultural, educational and psychological disadvantages. Students are taught to represent clients with integrity, ethics and professionalism, and to strive to improve the law profession. The clinic takes cases from nearly every area of the law, offering students the opportunity to work with special projects, including the Domestic Violence Project and the Housing Law Project, and with project attorneys.

Recent graduate and Nebraska State Bar Association 2024 Rise Award winner Kathryn Matthews spent her third year of law school at Creighton Law’s Milton R. Abrahams Legal Clinic gaining exposure to several practice areas in civil law. The clinic’s real-life learning opportunities, faculty and student support and the self-teaching aspects of legal research helped Kathryn gain confidence to enter the workforce as a lawyer in the Army’s Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps.

Four-credit Course

This four-credit course gives Creighton School of Law students experience in:

Client interviewing and counseling
Fact investigation
Negotiation
Recognizing and addressing ethical problems

Drafting
Law office organization and management
Preparing for and conducting trials and administrative hearings
Trial techniques

Other Legal Services

Child support and child custody
Guardianship
Wills and probate

Divorce
Landlord/tenant

Applying for Legal Services

If you’re a Douglas County resident who falls within the Federal Poverty Guidelines and are involved with a civil matter (non-criminal), you are eligible for free legal services through the Abrahams Legal Clinic. Applications are taken over the phone. Please call 402.280.3068 between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.