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Teaching Tomorrow’S Lawyers Through A (Semi-) Generalist, (Mostly-) Individual Client Poverty Law Clinic: Reflections On Five Years Of The Community Health Law Partnership, Jason A. Cade

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Design options when starting a live-client clinic from scratch can be somewhat overwhelming. Should the clinic focus on systemic impact or individual representation? Appellate work or hearings? Should the clinic specialize or cover multiple legal issues? Another set of issues concerns how the clinic should find and accept its clients, and whether students should have a role in the intake process. The list of choices goes on. In this Essay, written for the Georgia Law Review’s Online Issue celebrating 50 years of clinics at the University of Georgia School of Law, I describe how I have navigated these and other …

Dean's Report, 2019, Peter B. Rutledge

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Uga School Of Law Named Best Value In Legal Education, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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We are excited to share that for the second year in a row, the University of Georgia School of Law has been named the Best Value in Legal Education in the United States by the National Jurist. As these rankings are based largely upon outcome-driven factors such as average indebtedness, bar passage and employment, this speaks volumes to the school's relentless pursuit of a vision to be the nation's very best return on investment in legal education.

Back-To-Back Best Value Law School, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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This info-graphic style message to the law school community shares information including being ranked # Best Value Law School by National Jurist for 2019 and 2018 "Back to Back", as well as employment and ultimate bar passage rates among other stats and data on law student success and return on investment measures.

Volume 53, Issue 1 (2019), University Of Georgia School Of Law

Advocate Magazine

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• From the law school’s leaders
• From the Dean: On the rise
• $3 million gift transforming first-generation student experiences
• Committed to preparing the next generation of legal leaders
• Record number of students receive summer fellowships
• Distinguished Law Fellowships named in honor of Edge, Henson and Rees
• School celebrates 50+ years of clinical legal education
• An unwavering focus to be the nation's best return on investment
• Butler commitment guarantees financial aid for every veteran
• National team wins inaugural Magnolia Cup
• Teams win national titles and continue tradition of excellence
• Appellate Litigation Clinic records three wins
• Law firm establishes scholarship …

Clinical Syllabi As Demonstration Of Best Practices Implementation, Jean Goetz Mangan, Fernanda Mackay

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This Article posits that the University of Georgia School of Law for Clinical Programs course syllabi demonstrate implementation of recommendations found in leading works that advocate for change in traditional legal education. This Article reviews some high points of legal education reform with a focus on clinical legal education and then discusses the role of syllabi in the classroom and the potential within the document that many professors miss. This Article then turns to using syllabi to measure the extent that the clinics are implementing instruction that addresses all three apprenticeships as defined in the Carnegie Report.. To assess the …

Access To The Civil Court System For Survivors Of Child Sexual Abuse In Georgia: Observations And Recommendations From The Clinical Legal Education Experience, Emma M. Hetherington, Michael Nunnally

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Founded in January 2016, the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic (the CEASE Clinic) represents survivors of child sexual abuse in juvenile court dependency matters and civil litigation and is the first of its kind in the nation. The CEASE Clinic was established through a generous donation by Georgia Law alumnus Marlan Wilbanks (JD ‘84) in response to a new Georgia law known as the Hidden Predator Act (the HPA) that went into effect on July 1, 2015. The HPA extended the statute of limitations for civil claims arising out of acts of child sexual abuse by providing a …