Due to its long tradition of providing evening and part-time schedule options, the law school has also produced highly successful business leaders, particularly in the real estate, engineering, and oil and gas industries.

His predecessor Dean Valerie Couch was a former federal U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, who succeeded Lawrence Hellman, who succeeded Rennard Strickland, a noted legal historian and former Dean of the University of Oregon School of Law, and the Honorable Robert Harlan Henry, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Clinic students are primarily responsible for all case-related work including fact gathering, developing legal theories, and initial document drafting.

Students, under close faculty supervision, provide legal assistance in a variety of early-stage legal matters, including entity formation, contract drafting and review, intellectual property protection, and other transactional matters to business startups, entrepreneurs, and community nonprofit organizations to help them establish successful for profit and nonprofit enterprises.

The clinic targets entrepreneurs and innovators located in the underserved Oklahoma City community who are not able to afford retained legal counsel.

In the clinic seminar, students learn the substantive law and practical skills needed to effectively advise entrepreneurial clients.

[13] In June of 2024, OCU Law also inherited the Pro Bono Program from Saint Louis University School of Law, which matches under-resourced inventors and start up clients in Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and Arkansas to registered patent attorneys based anywhere who want to volunteer and help with pro bono hours of legal assistance.

Students are paired with attorney mentors and research issues handled by the office, including criminal justice, civil litigation, labor and employment, land use and economic development, trusts, utilities, elections, and finance.

Many of these families have limited knowledge of their rights as tenants and many do not have access to an attorney before reaching Oklahoma County's Forcible Entry and Detainer docket.

OCU Law students who have a community-driven work ethic are recruited to help these families while gaining experience with basic legal skills.