Sentences with phrase «law school clinics»

Students serving in law school clinics require close supervision by lawyers.

But there's a catch for law school clinics, many of whom appear in the criminal courts to represent low income persons accused of summary conviction offences.

Two recent reports have recommended expanding the role of law school clinics.

More of those cases than ever will be handled by lawyers or professors affiliated with law school clinics — unheard of just four years ago.

If law school clinics are to expand their roles, they will need additional funding.

This Article explores law school clinics and their effectiveness in addressing two related needs: teaching law students to be lawyers and serving low - income clients.

Applications from interested law school clinics will be examined for admission into the Program as they are received.

In other words, criminal practices in law school clinics will be wiped out.

Ace reporter Ethan Bronner, who has covered legal matters among others for many years, went out to Palo Alto for the kickoff ceremonies of a new law school clinic at Stanford Law School, the....

Similarly, the establishment of Ontario's legal aid plan in 1967 and the steady growth in community legal clinics in the 70s, including law school clinic programs with a special connection to the work of the Provincial Courts, were powerful forces inevitably leading to a more transparent court.

In late March, Legal Aid Ontario announced new funding for Ontario law school clinics in the amount of $ 100,000 each for continue their family law programs.

Still, the move against law school clinics hasn't gone unchallenged some big names in the legal community.

In the coming years, we hope to engage law school clinics and their students to learn and use the technology so that they can incorporate it (if not the actual software, something like it) in their own practice.

June 15, 2016 — «The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it opened the current Law School Clinic Certification Program (Program) to admit additional schools to commence participation in the Program.

Currently 42 law school clinics participate in the Program, 17 clinics participate in both the patent and trademark portions of the Program, 19 clinics participate only in the trademark portion of the Program, and 6 clinics participate only in the patent portion of the Program.

John energetically embraces a plethora of creative solutions including hackathons, opening law school clinics up to business and engineering schools and making the law accessible to people where they are, for example, through public libraries.

In the years following, law school clinics expanded throughout the United States and have since become an integral component of the law school curriculum across the country.

Law school clinics offer short meetings with students working under the guidance of a lawyer and often screen by income and usually have areas, like family law, in which they will not provide services.

The Health Rights Clinic is one of 6 law school clinics chosen to participate in and create a course kit as part of this project.

The history of law school clinics in Canada reveals that their development is much more recent and in this country the integration of legal clinics into law schools has been a slow and measured process.

Each law school clinical program must meet and maintain the requirements for USPTO certification in order for law school clinic students to practice before the USPTO.

Working with Law School clinics, Keepers, and environmental justice organizations, Daniel pioneered enforcement of the NPDES permits for industrial stormwater, municipal stormwater, and municipal sewage systems.

Another good option is to sign up for a law school clinic and get some hands - on experience during the semester.

This, too, is organized by audience (with a section for lawyers and law school clinics) as well as by categories (such as child services, counseling, hotlines, shelter, legal services, and the like).

Featured, «University of Michigan «s Law School clinic for student start - ups,» Xconomy Portal, February 2013

An injection of federal funding in civil legal aid can be one source for the expansion of the role of law school clinics, who can in turn provide the access to justice needed by Canadians.

Law student Megan Suzann Brown describes her own realization in this terrific blog post, Stocking my legal toolbox at Ms. JD, recounting her experience at a law school clinic that represented local college and graduate students receiving public assistance.

Otherwise, they may choose to use their electives in years 2 and 3 to flesh out some skills that they know they also need, to do a law school clinic, to do moot court, or to do an internship for credit.

Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) has grown to be the second largest free - standing (not a law school clinic) innocence project in the country.

Private pro bono clinics, law school clinics and clinics run by legal aid organizations are the first point of face - to - face contact with the justice system for most people who don't have a law firm on personal retainer.

Generally, I believe that students should have some exposure to practical training, but I think that participation in extracurricular activities like moot court, law school clinics or mock trials and a couple of semesters of skills courses will suffice.

From that initial $ 72,000 investment IPNO has grown to be the second largest free - standing (not a law school clinic) innocence project in the country.

Both through the speakers and in our small group conversations, the general consensus was a push to focus on practical, hands - on learning (e.g. partnerships with local businesses and law school clinics) and to integrate the law school curriculum by allowing (or even requiring) students to take courses within other schools at the university.

Law school clinics were attacked by state legislatures — but the clinics seemed to hold their own.

The NLADA Insurance Program offers a wide array of coverages designed to address the special needs of legal services organizations, public defender agencies, law school clinics, pro bono programs, public interest organizations, contract defenders, assigned counsel, lawyer referral services, and others committed to ensuring the availability of high quality legal services for the poor and underprivileged.

Tonya Kowalski, Washburn University School of Law, Toward a Pedagogy for Teaching Legal Writing in Law School Clinics, 17 Clinical Law Review 285 (2010).

We are the advocate and provider of quality professional liability insurance products for the full spectrum of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) membership community — individual attorneys, legal aid organizations, public defenders, corporate pro bono law programs, law school clinics, individual clients and public interest groups.

How can law school coursework provide critical context for learning in law school clinics, at law firms, in - house legal departments, and elsewhere?

Two law school clinics, Stanford's and Columbia's, also represented amici that supported winning parties in at least four cases this term.

Fundamentally, experiential education is learning by doing, typically by assuming the role of the lawyer in an in - class simulation, law school clinic, externship or cooperative placement.

Law school clinics and local legal aid organizations are mobilizing, and can use the help.

The NLADA Insurance Program, formed in 1994, serves as the advocate and provider of quality professional liability insurance products for the full spectrum of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) membership community — including individual attorneys, legal aid organizations, public defenders, corporate pro bono law programs, law school clinics, individual clients and public interest groups.