Application and Registration
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Students interested in registering for the clinical program must submit an Application Form (pdf)
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Questions regarding the application, contact the Center for Law and Justice reception desk (first floor, GU School of Law, Suite 125).
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After submitting your application, you will be notified of acceptance.
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Upon acceptance, Bonnie White, Clinic Office Manager, will notify the registrar's office of your selection for clinical enrollment.
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The registrar will automatically add the clinic credits to your registration.
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If you should register for a semester prior to being notified of your acceptance for clinical enrollment, you may wish to register for alternative course credits which could then be dropped after being advised of your clinic acceptance.
New Clinical Offering Starting Fall 2007 - Tribal Law Drafting Project
Tribal Law Drafting Project: New Secured Transactions Code for Kalispel Tribe of Indians
The Law School Clinical Program has entered into a Representation Agreement with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians to help draft a Secured Transactions commercial code for the tribe. The project will be supervised by clinical faculty with the assistance of commercial law experts Professors Sepinuck and Rusch.
The project will constitute a special clinical law offering for two credits beginning Fall semester, 2007. The clinic is seeking enrollment of two or three students to work exclusively on this drafting project for an average of ten hours per week.
This is a rare educational opportunity to combine an interest in business law with rapidly evolving Indian law and culture while working under the guidance of recognized commercial law experts. It is also an opportunity to work in the public interest by contributing to the economic development goals of a local tribe.
If interested, please contact Professors Rusch, Sepinuck, or Critchlow for more details.
- Credits: 2 credits per semester
- Time commitment: 10-12 hours/week (average)
- Eligibility: No prerequisites
General Public Interest Practice Clinic
Participating students handle cases, under the supervision of the six clinical faculty members, in a variety of legal fields. These fields may include Family Law, Elder Law, Disability Law, Tribal Court work, Environmental Law, Consumer Protection, and Civil Rights, at all levels of forums.
Litigation Support Clinic
Participating students will be responsible for support work on major clinic litigation, client and witness interviewing, formal and informal fact investigation, drafting of pleadings, motions, affidavits, memoranda, etc.
- Credits: 2 credits per semester
- Time commitment: 10-12 hours/week (average)
- Eligibility: At least 30, but no more than 60 credit hours
Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
Participating students have the opportunity to represent low-income clients who have tax controversies with the IRS. Students will also assist in providing community education about tax obligations and procedures to people who have limited English language ability.
Due to the initial training period, preference will be given to those applicants who are willing to consider making a two-semester commitment to the tax clinic. Cases may range from "advice-only" matters to full-blown litigation in the U.S. Tax Court. Students will be closely supervised and guided by attorney Chuck Hammer.
- Credits: 2 credits per semester
- Time commitment: 10-12 hours/week (average)
- Eligibility: 30 credit hours
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Transactional Business Law Clinic
Participating students will be responsible for researching issues, counseling clients, and preparing transactional documents related to business planning and economic development for non-profit and for profit businesses. Students will have an opportunity, in some cases, to work with Gonzaga's Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program on particular start-up projects. The Transactional Business Law Clinic will focus, in part, on Native American economic and entrepreneurial development.
- Credits: 2 credits per semester
- Time commitment: 10–12 hours/week (average)
- Eligibility: 30 credit hours
Work Study
Work study stipends (paid at a rate of $13.00/hour) will be available only to students who are work study qualified. They are typically reserved for students who commit to a two-semester sequence in the General Public Interest Practice Clinic; however exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis.
- Work study students may not work outside the clinic.
- Students who are not receiving work study may work outside the clinic only with the permission of clinic faculty.
- Permission will or will not be granted based on the faculty’s assessment of the potential for conflicts of interest and the student’s ability to commit sufficient time to Clinic cases and responsibilities.
The following clinics may be offered on a space-available basis only:
Domestic Violence/Family Law Clinic
Participating students will work, under the supervision of clinic faculty member Gail Hammer, with the local domestic violence shelter residents, as well as directly representing victims and/or dissolutions for clients.
Elder Law Clinic
Participating students will handle representational and transactional responsibilities, under the supervision of Clinic faculty member Larry Weiser on three to four elder law cases.
- Credits: 2 credits per semester
- Time commitment: 10-12 hours/week (average)
- Eligibility: 60 credits hours
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