The Center for Mediation Services at OATH, in collaboration with the New York University School of Law, established a mediation clinic at the law school in the fall of 2004 to train second- and third-year law students in mediation theory, skills and practice. The clinic is offered each fall semester and an advanced mediation clinic is offered in the spring. The clinic is taught by OATH Supervising Administrative Law Judge and adjunct faculty member Ray Kramer and NYU Law Professor Sarah Burns.

Mediation clinic students in the fall are required to undergo an intensive 32-hour mediation training at the Center that emphasizes basic mediation techniques and introduces them to mediating in a workplace context. The class meets weekly for further exploration of mediation theory and techniques, along with theoretical discussion of the role of the mediator and the place of mediation in institutional justice systems. The students also mediate several simulated disputes, which are filmed for critique and review. The clinic fieldwork involves students co-mediating employment disputes at the Center under the guidance of experienced Center mediators. Students also co-mediate undergraduate residence hall disputes referred by NYU's Department of Residential Education through a new program established within the university.

Students who continue on to the advanced mediation clinic in the spring concentrate on refining and applying their mediation skills, as they continue to co-mediate residence hall and workplace disputes. The spring semester additionally focuses on systemic challenges for mediation and alternate dispute resolution programs and on the design, regulation and delivery of such services. Students are required to identify and monitor a specific ADR service-delivery setting and report upon observations in class, and to spend one day a week interning with a mediation services or ADR organization within the City.