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Clinical Programs


Child and Family Advocacy Clinic

This clinic focuses on the skills needed to represent clients, ethical issues that arise in cases, and roles of counselor and attorney. Under the supervision of clinical professors who are licensed to practice in New Jersey and experienced in child dependency law practice, students will represent children in child abuse and neglect cases in Family Court in Camden. Students may also represent children in administrative hearings and proceedings regarding public benefits, education, immigration, medical, and mental health issues. Through advocacy in court and other venues, students will help ensure that the child welfare system is sufficiently addressing the safety, permanency, and well-being needs of the clients. The ultimate goal for most, if not all, clients will be to help make sure each client has a loving, safe, and permanent home. 

Children's Justice Clinic

The Children's Justice Clinic focuses on the skills necessary for client representation, the ethical issues that arise in cases, and the roles of attorney and counselor. Students represent juvenile clients in delinquency hearings, sentencing and postdisposition review, and associated legal matters.

Civil Practice Clinic

The law school operates a Civil Practice Clinic in which participating students provide legal representation to clients under the supervision of an attorney. Students have primary responsibility for each case and act as lead attorneys at any trial or hearing. Students employ various lawyering skills, depending on the needs of a given case, including interviewing and counseling clients, making strategic decisions, drafting pleadings and briefs, conducting negotiations, and participating in trials.

Students assist indigent senior citizens in consumer fraud matters, Social Security disability and public benefits cases, and landlord-tenant eviction actions. They also draft wills and advance directives. The Rutgers/LEAP Legal Project provides representation and community legal education to the families of children at the LEAP Academy University Charter School.

Domestic Violence Clinic

In the Domestic Violence Clinic, third-year law students represent victims of domestic violence in complex domestic violence matters under the supervision of an attorney. Students interview clients, prepare documents, make strategic decisions, draft briefs, and conduct hearings.

Small Business Counseling Clinic

In the Small Business Counseling Clinic, third-year students advise entrepreneurs and small business owners who are referred to the law school by the Rutgers–Camden Small Business Development Center. Under the supervision of an experienced business lawyer, students draft organizational documents for their clients, as well as leases, employment agreements, and other business contracts.


 
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