LAW935
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MEDICAL-LEGAL PRTNRSHP CLINIC
Course Title
MEDICAL-LEGAL PRTNRSHP CLINIC
Course Number
935
Min
4
Course Types
Clinic (CLIN), Experiential Learning, Letter Grading
Credit Type
CLINICS/EXTERNSHIPS
Description
Satisfies Experiential Learning. MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHP CLINIC: Through this Clinic, students provide holistic legal services to low-income older adult UCSF and VA patients in collaboration with medical providers. A novel feature of this course is that students typically meet with patients in their homes, long-term care facilities, and medical clinics, and advocate across multiple areas of law including advance health care planning, estate planning, public benefits, and pre-eviction housing. This clinic will be useful for any student considering general client or transactional-based practice, and will be of particular interest to students considering a career in health law, elder law, estate planning, or social justice lawyering.
Students develop key lawyering skills in interviewing, counseling, critical thinking, document drafting, case management, interdisciplinary collaboration, "whole person" lawyering through the representation of multiple clients from start to finish, navigating complex ethical situations, working in teams, and more. Students meet twice weekly throughout the semester for a two-hour seminar class and "caserounds" session in which students gather as a team to present, discuss and strategize about their cases in light of the seminar material. The seminar engages students in thoughtful discussion and practice-based learning about advance planning, public benefits, interdisciplinary ethics, how to evaluate client capacity, long-term care options, elder abuse, and other issues. Students learn about the complex intersection of law and health and its implications for our rapidly aging population.
Students must attend a day-long orientation session before the regular semester begins and another session part-way through the semester. Additionally, students must devote a minimum of 12-15 hours per week to direct services fieldwork, which includes meeting with patients at different locations around San Francisco and working on their cases in our UC Law-based clinic office. Fieldwork units are for non-classroom work and must be taken concurrently. There are no prerequisites and no experience or particular background is required. Admission to the Clinic requires consent of the instructor. Students should contact Yvonne Troya (troyay@uchastings.edu) for information.
Students develop key lawyering skills in interviewing, counseling, critical thinking, document drafting, case management, interdisciplinary collaboration, "whole person" lawyering through the representation of multiple clients from start to finish, navigating complex ethical situations, working in teams, and more. Students meet twice weekly throughout the semester for a two-hour seminar class and "caserounds" session in which students gather as a team to present, discuss and strategize about their cases in light of the seminar material. The seminar engages students in thoughtful discussion and practice-based learning about advance planning, public benefits, interdisciplinary ethics, how to evaluate client capacity, long-term care options, elder abuse, and other issues. Students learn about the complex intersection of law and health and its implications for our rapidly aging population.
Students must attend a day-long orientation session before the regular semester begins and another session part-way through the semester. Additionally, students must devote a minimum of 12-15 hours per week to direct services fieldwork, which includes meeting with patients at different locations around San Francisco and working on their cases in our UC Law-based clinic office. Fieldwork units are for non-classroom work and must be taken concurrently. There are no prerequisites and no experience or particular background is required. Admission to the Clinic requires consent of the instructor. Students should contact Yvonne Troya (troyay@uchastings.edu) for information.