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Nov 17, 2024
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LAW 7560 - Child Advocacy Clinic
Credits: 5
Develops lawyering skills and analytic methods for developing those skills. Clinic students represent abused and neglected children in actual child welfare cases and youth who have aged out of state care in connection with legal issues that remain from their time in the system. Topics include interviewing, counseling, fact investigation and discovery, case planning, negotiation, drafting of pleadings, motions and memoranda, and pretrial and trial advocacy. Special emphasis is placed on professional responsibility issues and strategic planning methods. Throughout the course, a combination of teaching methods are employed, including one-on-one case supervision, classroom instruction, class rounds, reflection exercises, simulations, and mock trial/courtroom skills exercises. This course also includes interdisciplinary lectures from various professionals in the child welfare field. Prerequisites: Completion of all first year courses and good academic standing. Corequisite: LAW 8355 or LAW 8455 Evidence.
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