1. Northumbria- A case study

3.  Open to the public  Works like a lawyer’s office

4.  A large clinic – 173 students  Well established – over 30 years  Full casework model - 400 cases per annum  £205,000 last year  Range of legal areas

5. Employment Housing Consumer Family Welfare Benefits Human rights Crime and miscarriages of justice Civil Prison law Charities Business advice environmental

6.  Compulsory  Graded  40% of the students’ final year

7.  Key learning outcomes of the law degree programme are delivered through the office  Oral communication and Interviewing  Problem solving  Practical Legal Research  Legal Writing and Drafting  Autonomy  Team work  Reflective practice and lifelong learning  Professional training requirements  The ability to critically analyse the law

8.  Year 2 – Interviewing experience, problem based learning, legal drafting  Year 3 – simulated file management, interviewing, problem based learning  Providing clinical education to other students not on the main undergraduate programme

9.  All staff are on academic contracts  Half of those who staff the clinic have other academic teaching duties in the school  Non-clinicans are quite often called upon for expertise

10. Journal Conference (Durham 11-13 th July 2012) Research

11.  Identify a source of income  Appoint a clinic director. Credit that director with workload. Don’t underestimate the scale of their task  Ensure the clinic director has access to the decision maker(s) in the faculty  Decide the role of students/other faculty in making decisions about the clinic  Ensure the clinic is appropriately supervised by qualified staff

12.  Not for profit advice agencies  Government legal aid agencies  Individual lawyers pro bono  Individual law firms pro bono  Professional Bodies

13.  Advice and referral only?  Open to members of the university only?  Limited areas of law?  Limited inherent risk in cases? – high value? Emergencies? Short time limits?  When will you be open?  What happens in university holidays? Have you sufficient cover in the event of illness/absence ?

14.  Admin support – paid/student?  Space to work  Space to meet  Space to interview  Filing  Paper  Post  library  IT  Insurance

15. confidentiality- email, data storage, who sees client files money laundering, fraud- identity checks Client Complaints Supervision of work Disability and discrimination Conflict checks

16. risks In the office Student/staff external visits Contingency plans for catastrophe

17. Educate and involve the law faculty Make the pedagogic case for clinic Try to ensure core income is assured ( from the university?) Build research capacity-develop reputation Place clinic at the heart of the learning experience Get policy makers on side Educate and involve the law faculty Make the pedagogic case for clinic Try to ensure core income is assured ( from the university?) Build research capacity-develop reputation Place clinic at the heart of the learning experience Get policy makers on side Get the profession on side Better new lawyers for them Corporate social responsibility? Get the profession on side Better new lawyers for them Corporate social responsibility? Use the clinic to attract new students Prepare the students Involve the students? Use the clinic to attract new students Prepare the students Involve the students? University,faculty and academic community profession Public students Awards, publications General Publicity – tv, newspapers, internet Top tips for sustaining an in-house clinic

18. Educate and involve the law faculty Make the pedagogic case for clinic Try to ensure core income is assured ( from the university?) Build research capacity-develop reputation Place clinic at the heart of the learning experience Get policy makers on side Educate and involve the law faculty Make the pedagogic case for clinic Try to ensure core income is assured ( from the university?) Build research capacity-develop reputation Place clinic at the heart of the learning experience Get policy makers on side University,faculty and academic community

19. Use the clinic to attract new students Prepare the students Involve the students in management? Use the clinic to attract new students Prepare the students Involve the students in management? students Top tips for sustaining an in-house clinic

20. Awards, publications General Publicity – tv, newspapers, internet Awards, publications General Publicity – tv, newspapers, internet Public

21. Get the profession on side Better new lawyers for them Corporate social responsibility? Get the profession on side Better new lawyers for them Corporate social responsibility? profession

22. Northumbria’s experience of going beyond the in-house full case model

23.  Approx 40 students  For students on other programmes  Voluntary  Not assessed

24.  Joint clinic project with local law firm ◦ Drop in advice ◦ Some supervision provided by the law firm ◦ Some provided by clinic staff ◦ Includes referral system

25. Benefits for law firm  Increase client base  Preview students as potential trainees  Publicity  Fulfil corporate responsibility Benefits for clinic/students  Contact with local profession  Expose students to law office  Intense learning experience

26.  Insurance  Supervision  Admin support needed  Clinic staff time

27.  Shelter advice worker to email enquiry to Student Law Office  Enquiry passed via supervisor to student to prepare draft practical legal research, and advice letter for supervisor within 2 weeks  Supervisor to amend these to be sent back to Shelter within deadline of 3 weeks http://sonarjohn.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/partnership-20picture-20cartoon.jpg

28.  Discipline working within tight deadlines  Developed skills – research and written communications, time management  Gave comparative experience of clinical work- but reflective aspect to be developed further  Wide range of housing enquiries

29.  Student volunteers  Trained by CAB to carry out ‘gateway advice’- a form of triage  Supervised entirely by CAB staff  CAB qualification at the end

30.  Compulsory (and assessed) or voluntary?  Who takes ownership- and responsibility?  Any admin support needed?  Safeguarding your reputation for excellence  Protecting the interests of students...