This panel explores the benefits of centers and clinics taking on lawyering projects that are utopic – ideas which may require a better landscape for the law than the times in which we live. Clinicians may be interested in a pedagogical framework that authentically embraces values and methodologies of utopic lawyering through such projects and justifies incorporating them at the same time that many of us are forced to respond to emergency and regression in our fields. These projects can be powerful in efforts to shift power, reframe narrative paradigms, and strengthen values such as collaboration, creativity, dignity, and healing justice. We might also derive lessons from our community partners in developing a framework that embraces communal envisioning and integration of different worldviews on linearity and progress. As a community at AALS, we will share real examples and ways of thinking about utopic lawyering in centers and clinic design. Discuss as a group how to integrate such lawyering projects in clinic. Consider our preconceptions about law projects that are pragmatic, wasteful, visionary or necessary. Share what lessons we learn from our community partners in sustaining utopic lawyering efforts. Explore how relationship, communal effort, and healing offer responses to these issues. Collaboratively develop responses to a sense of futility or frivolity among teachers and law students. This is a critical issue for clinicians at this moment. As teachers during times of regression, there is value to projects that maintain faith in a more just world.