![]() ![]() “Law school has given me so many amazing opportunities that I never would have dreamed would be available to me,” said Leaptrott. She also participated in the law school’s Civil Litigation Clinic, where she represented people who don’t have the resources to hire an attorney for cases involving consumer fraud, employment discrimination, unemployment insurance benefits, wage claims and tenant's rights. She had limited exposure to the legal field prior to starting at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, but she threw herself into the experience soon after arriving.Ī beneficiary of the Simonson/Meyerson Family Scholarship, she completed two externships at Phoenix-based law firm Quarles & Brady and one with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel. “Eventually, I just realized I would rather be doing what they were doing!”Ī first-generation college student, she had graduated with her Bachelor of Business Administration in managerial finance from the University of Mississippi and never thought law school would be in the cards for her. “That job put me in fairly regular contact with attorneys, and I was fascinated with the work they did on my claims, as well as the legal side of claims handling in general,” she said. ![]() Kristin Leaptrott had been working as a workers’ compensation claims adjuster for five years when she had an “aha” moment. The paper will address itself to the following topics: the varieties of clinical arrangements the prosecution services that can be performed by clinical students “academic” and other restrictions on maximizing those services and the balance between cost and benefits.Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2023 graduates. Although the significance of the Argersinger decision may be felt most substantially in clinical programs in criminal defense, the decision also increases the need for prosecution legal services and, therefore, the opportunities for student participation in representation of the state.Īlthough clinical education can have benefits both in terms of legal education and in terms of providing prosecution legal services, the focus on this paper will be on the latter. 2006 (1972), which extended the right to appointed counsel to all criminal cases in which there is a possibility of a jail term of any duration – and recognized specifically the role of law student participation in this process. The recent movement toward greater emphasis on clinical education in law schools is one that probably is self-sustaining but the movement no doubt has been encouraged by the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Argersinger v. Nevertheless, a significant number of law schools in the United States now have clinical programs which include student participation in the representation of the state. ![]() Clinical Legal Education and the Delivery of Legal Services: The View from the Prosecutor’s OfficeĬlinical legal education in prosecution, like clinical legal education in general, has been reborn only relatively recently. ![]()
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