Students in the CAC work on a variety of cases and projects concerning children and low-income families. In some cases, students act as Law Guardians (attorneys) for children who have been brought before the family court because of child abuse and/or child neglect concerns. Many of these children have been removed from the care of their parents, at least temporarily, and are residing in foster care or with relatives. In these cases, students are responsible for ensuring that the legal interests and needs of these children are being met. As part of this representation, students appear in court hearings in the Essex County Superior Court, Family Division. On other cases, students represent family members in fair hearings (like mini-trials) before administrative law judges (of the Office of Administrative Law and the Office of Hearings and Appeals) where individuals have been wrongly denied needed public benefits or incorrectly terminated from benefit programs. In these hearings, students do everything from interviewing clients to writing briefs to representing clients at hearings.

Located in Newark, New Jersey, Rutgers School of Law Women's Rights Litigation Clinic offers a variety of professional legal services in Civil Rights, Family, Domestic Violence, Employment.

The Urban Legal Clinic was established over 30 years ago to assist low-income clients with legal problems that are caused or exacerbated by urban poverty. Civil matters handled by the Clinic include housing, consumer protection, bankruptcy, matrimonial, civil rights, and Social Security/disability. The Clinic's Criminal Defense Project provides representation to clients who have been charged with minor criminal offenses. In recent years, Clinic students have successfully litigated matters involving truth-in-lending, conditions in Newark's public housing projects, and unlawful searches and seizures by the police, among many others.

The Special Education Clinic, one of the first of its kind in the nation, was created in January 1995 under the direction of former Acting Dean and Director, Eric Neisser. The Clinic provides free legal services to indigent parents of children with disabilities seeking to obtain appropriate educational services for their children, trains law students to handle special education cases, and seeks to educate both parents and school personnel concerning their mutual rights and responsibilities.

The Federal Tax Clinic represents individuals in disputes with the IRS.

The Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic serves two vital and interdependent functions: providing an opportunity for law students to practice environmental advocacy and serving New Jersey's environmental community through trial and appellate litigation, administrative advocacy and policy development.

Since its founding in 1970, the Constitutional Litigation Clinic has worked on cutting-edge constitutional reform. Through the clinic, students not only learn the law, they make the law. Constitutional Litigation Clinic students have litigated a remarkable array of landmark civil rights and international human rights cases. The clinic's extensive docket has included the nation's first suits against police surveillance of political activists; a successful challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court of Congress' authority to refuse to seat a duly elected member; a successful defense of the right of non-profit advocates to distribute leaflets to voter door-to-door and in shopping malls; lawsuits to implement affirmative action programs and to enforce affordable housing laws; protection of immigrants' rights; protection of the rights of alternative political parties; a successful challenge to municipal ordinances barring use of public parks run by non-residents; and suits against the state police for unreasonable searches of motorists on New Jersey's highway.

The Community Law Clinic provides corporate, transactional, and intellectual property attorney services to New Jersey nonprofit corporations, start-up for-profit businesses, and Charter Schools. The Clinic's primary focus is on businesses and organizations that provide services to and opportunities for the poor and low income people in the City of Newark and nearby urban areas. The Clinic provides initial corporate organizational work (drafting corporate documents, certificates of incorporation or formation, by-laws, operating agreements and organizational minutes), non-profit status filings, charity registration, Charter School formation, real estate transactions, intellectual property and entertainment law advice and assistance for these business entities.