LAW 7874 - [Cornell Legal Aid Clinic I]

(CU-CEL)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Satisfies the skills requirement. Attendance mandatory at first class.

J. Feldman.

In this clinic, student attorneys will represent low-income persons who reside in the greater Ithaca area. The clinic will concentrate especially on areas of the law in which there are few opportunities for low-income clients to obtain representation in civil matters. School law will be a focus, and clinic students will represent K-12 students and their parents in special education, school discipline, and school residency cases. The clinic will also accept cases in the areas of civil rights (including employment discrimination, disability rights, and fair housing), economic justice (including wage theft and other wage and hour violations), and access to governmental benefits (including Medicaid, food stamps, SSI/SSD, and unemployment insurance).

In all types of cases, students will gain valuable litigation skills, negotiation skills, and client representation skills, by advocating for clients in a variety of administrative hearings and court proceedings. Several sessions of the clinic seminar will be taught jointly with Professor Susan Hazeldean; her LGBT Clinic students will also join those class sessions.

The clinic will be taught by Visiting Clinical Professor Jonathan Feldman, a public interest lawyer with extensive experience in special education cases and civil rights cases. Students who wish to apply to the clinic should submit a resume, transcript, and brief statement of interest (no more than 1 page) to Prof. Feldman by email, at jfeldman@empirejustice.org.

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