Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic II

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Prerequisites: Students may find Corporations and/or Nonprofit Organizations or similar courses to be helpful. Because the credits in this course count toward the JD Program Professional Skills requirement, JD candidates will be given enrollment priority for this class. Concurrencies: None

Exclusive With: None

Laptops Allowed: Yes

First Day Attendance Required: Yes

Course Resources: To be announced via Canvas.

Course Notes: ENROLLMENT: Students enroll in the clinic via the lottery process occurring in the summer. If seats are available in this clinic after the lottery process, students can request enrollment via https://virginia.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8AoAfjpGKKmaHxc The clinic can be taken whether or not a student has taken LAW 8671 (Comm Org & Soc Ent Clinic I). TIME COMMITMENT: There may be a "boot camp" (likely the Friday or Monday immediately prior to classes starting) to jump start the semester. Seminar time after initial training will be divided between: (1) faculty-led or guest speaker sessions on substantive topics relevant to clinic projects, and (2) student discussion/presentations to the full class with Q&A at key stages of the process. There is also a weekly standing team supervision session once a week (set based on student schedules) and teams may establish their own separate standing team work meeting. The expectation for total average weekly commitment (including boot camp, class/supervision/meeting time and all client work) is about 10-12 hours per week. MATTER ASSIGNMENT POLICY: I aim to assign students to teams of 2-4 students that are collectively responsible for an approximately equal number of clients. As we approach the semester start, I solidify the clients/projects for the semester, and then I ask students about their interests and preferences via this form (https://virginia.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8u2148M83MKlzsW), and we work together to decide on teams no later than the first week of class. Students then elect which of their team's projects to serve as team lead on, though all students on the team are responsible for divvying up the client work among themselves and ensuring the work is completed for all of that team’s clients, with my oversight. Students are typically flexible enough to allow for team/matter assignment that roughly matches team members’ interests while meeting client needs. But in some cases, team/matter assignment doesn’t perfectly align. Because students will be performing work for clients to whom we have already committed clinic assistance, students should be prepared to contribute equally to their team’s work, regardless of their level of personal interest in each of the matters the team is responsible for.