CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Potter Law Club

The Potter Law Club (PLC), named to honor an early chief justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, is the school’s student bar organization. It provides student government and engages in academic and social activities to enhance the educational experience at the college. A major undertaking of Potter Law Club is the sponsorship of a speakers’ program through which lawyers, judges, and legal scholars address students and faculty. On the national level, the club is affiliated with the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association.  It also coordinates the activities of the other student organizations.

Student Organizations

Christian Legal Society

Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity

Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies

Intellectual Property Club

International Law Students Association

Minority Law Students Association

Natural Resources & Environmental Law Club

Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity

Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity

Women's Law Forum

Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association

National Honorary Organizations

Order of Barristers

Order of the Coif

Christian Legal Society

Christian Legal Society (CLS) is a national organization comprised of judges, lawyers, legal educators, and law students committed to integrating their faith in Jesus Christ with their professional lives. The Wyoming Student Chapter of CLS consists of interested faculty and law students who meet regularly to discuss Biblical principles and the practice of law from a Christian perspective.

Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity

Delta Theta Phi (DTP) is an international professional law fraternity. The Stanley K. Hathaway Senate of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity was organized in 1983 at the College of Law. Named for a former Wyoming Governor and United States Secretary of the Interior, the Senate is open to all students.

Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities. This entails reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law. It also requires restoring the recognition of the importance of these norms among lawyers, judges, and law professors. In working to achieve these goals, the Society has created a conservative and libertarian intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community. "

Intellectual Property Club

The Intellectual Property Club provides a forum for law students with interests in intellectual property to meet and share their thoughts and enthusiasm. The club also assists the College of Law in sponsoring speaker forums with a focus on intellectual property issues.  Visit them at www.wyolaw.org

International Law Students Association

The Wyoming Chapter of the International Law Students Association (ILSA) was organized in 1994 to promote increased awareness of issues of international legal importance in Wyoming. ILSA provides a forum for the discussion and study of these legal issues.

Minority Law Student Association

The Minority Law Student Association (MLSA) provides academic and social support services to ethnic minority and other law students. Additionally, MLSA sponsors forums where legal issues concerning minorities are discussed.

Natural Resources & Environmental Law Club

The Natural Resources & Environmental Law Club (NRELC) provides students with current environmental periodicals, engages in research projects for various groups, and brings in speakers on environmental and natural resource topics.

Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity

The purpose of this Fraternity is to form a strong bond uniting students and teachers of the law with members of the Bench and Bar in a fraternal fellowship designed to advance the ideals of liberty and equal justice under law; to stimulate excellence in scholarship; to inspire the virtues of compassion and courage; to foster integrity and professional competence; to promote the welfare of its members; and to encourage their moral, intellectual, and cultural advancement; so that each member may enjoy a lifetime of honorable professional and public service. 

Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity

Phi Delta Phi (PDP) is the oldest professional fraternity in the Western Hemisphere. Our chapter, the McClintock Inn, named for former Wyoming Supreme Court Justice and Wyoming Attorney General Archie McClintock, was established in 1994 and is the youngest fraternity at the College of Law.  The inn is open to all law students.

Women’s Law Forum

Women’s Law Forum (WLF) was established to promote the advancement of women in law-related professions; to encourage women to fully participate in the curriculum; and to increase their knowledge of varying educational, professional, political, and social issues affecting women in the law. This goal is promoted through the sponsorship of speakers on issues specific to women in the law, as well as general issues regarding the profession and all of its members.

Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association

The Student Chapter of the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association (WTLA) was organized in 1987 to sponsor a series of seminars designed to enhance the education of students interested in trial practice. The student chapter works closely with the state organization to provide students the opportunity to interact informally with a variety of members of the Wyoming bar and judiciary.

National Honorary Organizations

Order of Barristers

The Order of Barristers is a national honorary organization that encourages oral advocacy and brief-writing skills through law school oral advocacy programs. The College of Law awards membership in the barristers to graduating students who have excelled in the various moot court and mock trial competitions in the College.

Order of the Coif

In 1985 the College of Law was awarded a chapter of the Order of the Coif, an honorary society that recognizes legal scholastic excellence. Each year, the chapter may initiate into membership those students who graduate in the highest 10 percent of their class and may also initiate an honorary member from the legal profession.