To kick-off UC School of Law’s compliance with the Student Practice Rule, it conducted a Clinical Legal Education Program Orientation last November 21, 2020. The said CLEP Orientation was attended by the law school’s prospective 2023 Bar exam candidates.

The Supreme Court en banc, on June 25, 2019, adopted and promulgated A.M. No. 19-03-24-SC Rule 138-A Law Student Practice, otherwise known as the Revised Law Student Practice Rule (Revised Rule). The Revised Rule is an amendment to the existing provisions of Rule 138-A of the Rules of Court.

Under Section 3 of the Revised Rule, a law student shall apply for and secure a Level 1 or 2 Certification, as the case may be, in order to be permitted to engage in any of the activities under the Clinical Legal Education (CLE) Program of a law school. The basic distinction between the two levels involves the minimum academic requirement the law student has successfully completed: for Level 1 Certification – first-year law courses, while for Level 2 Certification – third-year law courses. Further, starting in the 2023 Bar Examinations, candidates are required to complete at least Level 1 Certification.

Even before the Student Practice Rule, UC Law has incorporated experiential learning into its curriculum and also made CLE subjects mandatory for students in both Juris Doctor Thesis and Non-Thesis programs.

At UC Law, we enable our students to be critical. We prepare them for the Bar and beyond.