The first-year curriculum will consist of thirty (30) credit hours of study, one-third of the ninety (90) credit hours that will be required to graduate. During the first-year, students will enroll in the following courses:

The first-semester Professionalism course will expose you to the highest ideals and expectations of the legal profession in the first semester of law school. Together with members of the faculty, bench and bar, you will participate in seminar-style discussions about what it means to be a professional, what are the challenges facing attorneys and other professionals, the risk of substance abuse among attorneys, and what resources are available to help professionals cope with the stressful demands of their jobs. Approximately one month into the course, you and your classmates will work together with faculty and area attorneys to create an "Oath of Professionalism" that a member of the Indiana Supreme Court will be invited to administer to them. In November of the first year, the Professionalism course will shift from discussing what it means to be a professional to preparing you for life as a professional. You will be instructed in resume drafting, interviewing, and the expectations of law students by the profession.

The second-semester Ethics course will serve as a unique introduction to basic ethical principles that every attorney is expected to know and abide by. The course will focus on subjects that first-year students typically wait until the second year of law school to discuss in depth, including client confidentiality, managing client trust funds, misrepresenting law and/or facts to a tribunal, and students will explore the lives of attorneys who are persecuted for standing up for the Rule of Law. Another Ethics course, called Professional Responsibility, will be required in your second year.

Throughout the first year, the Legal Research & Writing course will introduce students not only to traditional skills such as analysis, synthesis, and drafting, but also to other important tools such as client interviewing and counseling, client communication, and oral argument.

After the first year, you may choose to enroll in a wide variety of electives. You may choose a general, traditional curriculum or you may decide to focus your upper-level course work. You will have four "concentrations" from which you may choose if you would like to specialize your education in a particular area of the law. If you complete a concentration, you will receive a notation on your diploma and transcript to indicate that you have enriched your education by taking courses in a particular area of the curriculum and by completing a clinic experience or a full-time "semester-in-practice" experience within that concentration. The four concentrations are Advocacy/Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property/Technology Law, Transactional Law, and Global Law and Leadership.

A "semester-in-practice" opportunity is one of the more exciting features of student life at Indiana Tech Law School. In your third year of law school, you can earn credit by working, full-time, for one semester with a non-profit or government law office. Students in semester-in-practice placements will learn—first hand—what it is like to practice law well before they graduate. This unique experience will better prepare students for careers as practicing lawyers.

The clinics will supplement classroom instruction and will have the additional benefit of providing free legal services to a small segment of the Fort Wayne community.

The clinics will exist in two forms: (1) clinics that deliver legal services to individual clients in a traditional law office setting and (2) clinics that do not require a formal office setting in which to operate. The first category of clinics will be led by staff attorneys, individuals who are licensed to practice law in Indiana (and who will work under the supervision of a full-time faculty member who will also serve as the school’s director of experiential learning), and the second category will be directed by full-time faculty members as one of their courses.

Among the planned “law office” clinics are a mediation clinic, an estate-planning clinic, and an immigration clinic. In the mediation clinic, students will assist the vice president for enrollment management by facilitating the resolution of certain disputes between Indiana Tech students through mediation. In the estate-planning clinic, students will write simple wills, living wills, healthcare advanced directives, and related documents for Indiana Tech employees. In the immigration clinic, students will represent indigent clients who are not native to the United States in court or before administrative bodies on immigration and naturalization issues. The staff attorneys will be responsible for supervising the students’ activities and for continuing the representation of clients and appearing in court when school is not in session.

Among the planned "faculty-led clinics" are a "trial court" clinic, a VITA Tax Assistance clinic, a tech-transfer clinic, and a United Nations Human Rights Treaty clinic. In the "trial court" clinic, a faculty member will serve as a clearinghouse for the trial judges in Allen County, Indiana, and surrounding counties. The professor will supervise a team of law students who will be “on call” to provide law clerk assistance to the trial judges as needed. In Indiana, not all state court trial judges have full-time law clerks so the availability of a pool of law clerks should permit the local trial bench to examine more conveniently issues of first impression and complex questions of law.

The VITA Tax Assistance clinic will operate as the Indiana Tech chapter of the national Volunteers in Tax Assistance program that exists nationwide. In VITA, students will prepare income tax returns for senior citizens or low-income individuals, in accordance with the conditions established by VITA, under the supervision of a law professor.

The tech-transfer clinic will provide Indiana Tech engineering and technology students and faculty with an interdisciplinary team who will assist each inventor as they try to turn their inventions into a marketable product or service. The faculty member who supervises the tech-transfer clinic will direct teams consisting of one law student and one MBA student and the pair of students will be expected to work as a team to resolve the intellectual property and business issues that each inventor will confront when trying move their ideas to market.

In the United Nations Human Rights Treaty clinic, law students will be given the opportunity, under the supervision of a full-time faculty member, to write “shadow reports” for non-governmental organizations that act as monitoring committees to document the progress (or lack thereof) of member states that have adopted international treaties.

There will be externship opportunities in addition to the clinics and semester-in-practice placements and all are designed to help you learn about the practice of law prior to graduating from law school.