Employment Clinical Workshop
Fall term, Block L
W 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mr. Stephen Churchill
2 classroom credits Fall LAW-35315A
2, 3, or 4 required clinical credits Fall
The course would cover lawyering skills in the context of employment law. After a brief overview of relevant doctrine and procedure, the course will cover, through lectures and exercises, skills such as interviewing, case analysis, counseling, negotiating, written and oral advocacy, ethics, and discovery tactics. All students will have a clinical placement, either at the Employment Law Clinic of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center or at externships with private firms, advocacy groups, or government agencies (such as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). All placements will include exposure to some aspect of employment law and will play an important role in bringing diverse perspectives to the workshop. The workshop will require completion of an individual or group project that will connect clinical placements with course topics. Students enrolling in this class also may want to consider enrolling in the Employment Civil Rights Clinical Workshop in the spring, which focuses on doctrine, policy, and enforcement strategies in the area of employment civil rights.
The workshop will be limited to 12 students.
Enrollment for this clinical course will occur during Clinical registration. Please refer to the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs website at http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/ for clinical course registration dates, drop/add deadlines, and other registration information.