LAW 634: Community and Economic Development Clinic
The Community and Economic Development Clinic represents low income communities in forming entities and finding creative legal solutions to economic and legal issues. Students provide transactional legal services that help an individual, group, or organization to initiate operation, continue operation, or address a particular legal problem. The Clinic does not provide any legal assistance in initiating or defending litigation. The Community and Economic Development Clinic provides transactional legal services for client groups engaged in different kinds of neighborhood-based community development. It represents and helps organize small non-profits and businesses, and tenants’ associations in the public and private sectors, all of whom share the goal of developing different kinds of resources for greatly underserved urban communities. Through participation in the Clinic, students enhance their understanding of business concepts through the representation of traditionally underserved clients. Students also have the opportunity to examine the ethical and social change issues involved in group transactional representation as an innovative approach to poverty law practice. Pre-requisite: Corporations or Corporations and Business Entities. Pass/Fail. Enrollment limited. [3]
[To be eligible for services, the group must either have a mission to serve a traditionally underrepresented group or must be composed principally of persons who fall within the federal poverty guidelines. The group also must have no other reasonable alternative for attaining quality legal counsel. Students enrolled in the Community and Economic Development Clinic attend the weekly clinic classes with students in all clinics. These classes focus on issues common to all legal representation such as negotiation, interviewing, and ethics. In addition, transaction-oriented topics are incorporated into the existing clinic classroom sequence. Although Corporations is a prerequisite, it can be waived by the professor and clinic director.]
LAW 634A: Community and Economic Development Clinic - Advanced
An optional second semester is available. Maximum credit of five Clinic credits. Pass/Fail. Faculty approval required. [2]
