Funding Cardozo’s World-Class Clinics: A Transformative Philanthropic Investment

Cardozo’s clinics provide incomparable learning opportunities for students, while ensuring marginalized and vulnerable clients have access to welcoming and expert pro bono counsel. The generous gifts of our donors will enable a renovation and redesign of the clinic space into an outstanding home for clinical education at Cardozo, while expanding the number of students who can participate in the ongoing, critically important, work of the clinics and expand the clientele.

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Architectural rendering of students walking in clinical education center

Cardozo has 10 in-house clinics and more than 15 field clinics that combined grant 282 students the opportunity to gain practical hands-on experience in service to 2,500 clients per year.

Donor Opportunities

include endowing the Bet Tzedek Civil Litigation Clinic, the Filmmakers Legal Clinic, the Securities Arbitration Clinic, and more. Click here to see the full list. For more information, speak with our staff.

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Cardozo Clinics by the Numbers

50%
Average rate of case dismissals secured by Criminal Defense Clinic students each year.
4
Number of clemency and early release victories by the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice in its first year.
70
Number of people on Death Row in a Louisiana prison freed from indefinite solitary confinement through a lawsuit filed by the Civil Rights Clinic.
Thousands
Number of immigrants released from detention as a result of a class action lawsuit won by the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic.
Hundreds
Number of elderly and disabled NYC Medicaid recipients whose home care services were restored by the Bet Tzedek Civil Litigation Clinic.
164
Number of Cardozo students trained in international human rights law and atrocity prevention by the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic since 2008. 
$1.5M
Value of legal services provided by the Divorce Mediation Clinic, more than 500 couples helped.
275+
Number of films represented by the Filmmakers Legal Clinic since 2011.
200+
Number of entrepreneurs and tech innovators served by the Tech Startup Clinic since 2013.

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