Community Law Services Clinic Description - LAWN599

5 Credits

The Community Law Services Clinic will provide the 2-Year JD students with opportunities to cover cases in several different practice areas, including mortgage foreclosures, veterans’ affairs, immigration, family law, disaster relief, bankruptcy and elder law through the Senior Citizens Law Project. Students will be required to complete 168 hours of field work and 42 hours of seminar time, spread over a 10 week period. Clinic students will interview clients, engage in fact investigation/fact gathering, prepare legal documents, represent clients at conferences and appear in court on some of their cases, under the direct supervision of a member of the clinical faculty. (Open only to second-year 2-year J.D. students.)