THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have applied to and been accepted by the Appellate Clinic. Students in the Appellate Clinic represent public interest clients in courts of appeals and the Supreme Court under the supervision of clinical faculty. Appellate Clinic clients are individuals and entities otherwise unlikely to obtain quality representation including civil-rights plaintiffs, employees, consumers, tenants, immigrants, and criminal defendants. We occasionally represent amici as well. Students collaborate on brief writing and oral argument projects with a team comprised of other clinic students and the clinic’s director. The clinic’s director prepares students for their cases through weekly team supervision meetings, individual meetings, case rounds, moots, and workshops as appropriate. The Appellate Clinic seminar provides substantive and skills-based training that will support your client work. Seminar meets once a week and focuses on the mechanics of written and oral appellate advocacy and the substantive areas of law the clinic is currently litigating. The seminar addresses each stage of the appellate process so that students develop an understanding of how to litigate an appeal from start to finish. That means that typically in the fall, seminar is focused on opening briefs, appellate mediation, collaboration, and other critical appellate skills. PRE/CO-REQUISITES: All first-year courses. Federal Courts and Professional Responsibility are highly recommended as pre-requisites or co-requisites, but not required. NOTE: The Appellate Clinic counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.

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