New York State Attorney General Field Clinic

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In New York State's nationally renowned Office of the Attorney General (OAG), students work in the Civil Rights, Labor, Health Care, Environmental Protection, Tobacco Compliance, and Charities Bureaus of the Social Justice Division to protect New Yorkers' legal rights. Students assist with affirmative and defensive litigation and public enforcement, developing skills in subpoena drafting, negotiation, legal research and writing, fact discovery and depositions, motion practice and/or oral argument. Participants take a seminar taught by two seasoned Assistant Attorneys General, which features lectures, workshops, simulations, and guest speakers. The course explores such issues as developing cooperative relationships with stakeholders, jurisdictional barriers to public enforcement such as pre-emption, educating the public through the media, deciding the appropriate remedies to seek against private individuals and companies, and the ethics of public-sector work. Taught by Janice Dean, Assistant Attorney General, Environmental Protection Bureau, and Terri Gerstein, Bureau Chief, Labor Bureau, at the Offices of the AG located at 120 Broadway, New York. Participants work 10-15 hours a week in both the fall and the spring. The accompanying seminar is two credits in the fall and one credit in the spring. http://www.ag.ny.gov/our_office.html Corequisite(s): LAW 7991 .