Community Justice and Legal Assistance Clinic
Students work with young people, their families, and service providers in a multifaceted approach to identifying and resolving problems of a legal nature. Under the supervision of faculty and community partners, clinic students both handle individual representation cases and participate in collaborative nonlitigation work such as community education, advocacy training, policy development, or law reform. The class room component of the course focuses on planning, communication, systemic analysis and problem solving skills.
Criminal Defense Clinic
Devoted to representing indigent adult and juvenile criminal defendants in Rhode Island District, Family, and/or Superior Courts from arraignment through to final trial or other original adjudicative disposition.
Mediation Clinic Course Description The Mediation Clinic is a one semester clinical experience in which law students earn from 4 to 6 hours of academic credit mediating disputes arising in the local East Bay Rhode Island communities under the supervision of a faculty clinic director. The law students will be trained in advanced mediation and other practical conflict resolution skills, and then will (1) assist disputing parties to achieve mutually agreeable settlements by serving as mediators, and (2) provide conflict resolution educational workshops in the community.
Prerequisites: Students wishing to enroll in the Mediation Clinic must meet the requirements of R.I.G.L. § 9-19-44, which mandates that mediators have received a minimum of 30 classroom hours of training in mediation. Law 733: Mediation meets this requirement, but other training courses might also be acceptable in the discretion of the clinic director.
