LAW919

Satisfies Experiential Learning Requirement. Fieldwork units count against the 20-unit cap for "non-classroom" work. Fieldwork units count against the 20-unit cap for "non-classroom" work. The clinic provides students with practical experience in the problems associated with representing government entities. The clinic has an academic and fieldwork component. To participate, students must enroll concurrently in the clinic's academic component, The Government Lawyer. For the fieldwork component, students work 16 or 20 hours per week in a government office performing legal work under a lawyer's supervision. Enrollment is contingent on acceptance into an approved fieldwork placement. Typical placements have included the San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto or Oakland City Attorney's Office, where students have worked with a range of practice groups, including the general government group, the health, education, and social services group, the land use and environment group, and the labor group. Other students have worked at the Marin, Alameda or Santa Clara County Counsel's Office or at the San Francisco Ethics Commission or the legal divisions for BART and the PUC, or at the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Students should apply directly to the placement that interests them and complete an application on the Government Law Clinic MyHastings page for permission to enroll after they have been offered an internship. Placements not on the preapproved list available require approval from Prof. Nira Geevargis (geevargis@uchastings.edu).