Paul Bennett joined the College of Law in 1996 as the first Director of the Child Advocacy Clinic. Our clients deserve nothing less.Ĭlinical Professor of Law and Director of the Child and Family Law Clinic We expect the Child and Family Law Clinic to provide the highest quality legal services to our clients. By “lawyer judgment” we mean making the kinds of ethical and practical decisions that lawyers are asked to make regardless of their area of practice. In the process of the first two goals and drawing on lessons from all other law school classes, law student’s sense of lawyer judgment will develop and mature. We hope that the Clinic can help students help themselves to become reflective lawyers - that is lawyers who are not only highly skilled professionals, but who also care about the quality of the justice, ethics, and morality of the profession. In addition to cultivating lawyer skills, the Clinic helps students begin to master the lifelong skill of learning from experience - not only about the law, but also about themselves. Students interview clients and witnesses investigate facts research the law write motions and court reports negotiate with other lawyers work collaboratively with social work students and stand up and advocate in a real courtroom. Through practical experience in the field and in classroom simulations, we help law students develop their skills and learn a little about the law. Students seek to empower clients by encouraging their active participation, when safe, at every stage of the legal process. The clinic is dedicated to representing, with integrity, the interests of children and adult victims involved with the justice system. We are committed to providing a quality, supervised, multi-disciplinary learning environment for law students and masters of social work interns. The Child and Family Law Clinic is a working law office in which law students, working in multi-disciplinary teams, represent children in child protection proceedings and adult victims of domestic violence.
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