Limited Admission for Clinical Law Program Teachers under Rule 414, SCACR
This rule is adopted to foster and aid the clinical law programs of law schools. These programs provide legal services to those who are unable to afford private legal counsel and educate law students in providing these legal services.
Electronic Communications
All information and announcements are posted on the Office of Bar Admissions' webpage at scbaradmissions.sccourts.org. Applicants are expected to regularly visit this webpage to review
the announcements and information posted there. Applicants are also required to maintain a current email address and mailing address on their personal bar application account and to
regularly read all mail from the Office of Bar Admissions, whether sent electronically or by the postal service. Applicants must ensure that emails from the Office of Bar Admissions are not
filtered as spam and should add noreply@scbaradmissions.sccourts.org to their email address book.
Application for a Limited Certificate of Admission for Clinical Law Program Teachers
An attorney desiring a limited certificate of admission to practice law shall file an application with the South Carolina Supreme Court Office of Bar Admissions accompanied by a certificate
of good standing from each jurisdiction in which the attorney has been admitted to practice law, and a statement signed by the Dean of the law school at which the attorney is employed stating
that the attorney meets the requirements of Rule 414(b)(1) to (3).
General Requirements for a Limited Certificate of Admission for Clinical Law Program Teachers
A limited certificate of admission to practice law in South Carolina will not be granted unless the applicant meets the following requirements.
- Is employed full-time by a law school within this State which has been approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) and is responsible for supervising or teaching in the
clinical law program operated by the law school;
- Provides legal services solely in connection with the supervision of or instruction in the law school's clinical law program;
- Neither requests nor receives compensation or remuneration of any kind for legal services from the person for whom the services are rendered;
- Is at least twenty-one years of age;
- Is of good moral character;
- Has received a JD or LLB degree from a law school that was approved by the Council of Legal Education of the ABA at the time the degree was conferred;
- Has been admitted to practice law in the highest court of another state or the District of Columbia for at least three years;
- Is a member in good standing in each jurisdiction where he is admitted to practice law;
- Has not been disbarred or suspended from the practice of law and is not the subject of any pending disciplinary proceeding in any other jurisdiction; and
- Has not, within the last five years, been denied admission to a bar for character or ethical reasons or disciplined for professional misconduct.
