Law - Legal Aid Clinic

Catalog description

Students provide legal assistance, including direct client representation, to indigent child and adult clients with active cases in Douglas County District Court and Lawrence Municipal Court. Recent areas of representation have included juvenile criminal defense, misdemeanor municipal defense, family law, protection from abuse, landlord-tenant, and other civil cases. A weekly seminar meeting accompanies the field work and allows students and instructors to study the methodologies underlying lawyering tasks in context, thereby merging theory with practice. Supervision meetings with faculty are designed to encourage creative case planning, practice management, and individual professional development through feedback and critique. Students are required to be qualified under Kansas Rule 715, which requires a minimum of 59 hours of course work or 44 hours if enrolled in an in-house faculty supervised clinic. Students must apply to the clinic and be accepted before enrolling. Applications and deadlines are available in Room 105. Prerequisite: LAW 992 and LAW 972; Qualification under Kansas Rule 715. See Clinic and Field Placement Rules under the Regulations tab of the catalog.