The Public Interest Law Center provides on-campus clinical legal training for second- and third-year law students. Its aim is to instill in students a sense of professional responsibility toward low-income children and families and to give students a taste of the joys of public service. Students are certified by the Florida Supreme Court to practice law as interns and, under the supervision of licensed attorneys, they represent clients with pressing legal needs.

The center consists of three clinics. The Children’s Advocacy Clinic represents children in foster care, juvenile delinquency, health care, special education, disability, Social Security and criminal law cases. The Children’s Advocacy Clinic is nationally and internationally recognized for its advocacy on behalf of children. The Family Law Clinic serves low-income clients with a wide range of family law issues, including dissolution of marriage, custody, visitation, injunctions against violence, paternity, modifications and contempt of court. The Medical-Legal Partnership, a collaboration between the Florida State University Colleges of Law and Medicine, is an innovation in interdisciplinary education. Law students partner with medical students, social work students, lawyers and physicians to examine patients' social determinants of health. Students work inter-professionally to ascertain the best methods to resolve the health and related legal problems of impoverished patients.