Last year, he was named associate dean for clinical programs and experiential learning, overseeing 18 clinical and externship programs.Ĭommunity HeLP works at the intersection of immigration status and health. In 2013, Cade began teaching immigration law and directing the Community Health Law Partnership Clinic (Community HeLP) at the University of Georgia School of Law. “I think the most significant thing I learned was to be willing to go big, even in what can seem like a small case.”
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“Almost 20 years later, I’m still unpacking the lessons, in terms of both how to be a great lawyer and how to teach lawyering to students,” he said. But even more formative was his experience in Kotkin’s Employment Law Clinic. A civil externship with the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit, taught by Professor Mary Jo Eyster, led him to specialize in immigration law as an attorney, a teacher, and a scholar. The clinical program was one of the primary reasons Jason Cade ’05 chose Brooklyn Law School. “You can’t teach these skills in a podium class.” “Clinics help students gain the skills, knowledge, and professionalism they need to graduate with the ability to start representing clients right away,” she said. She continues to see clinical education as invaluable, for reasons as varied as having the opportunity to work with marginalized communities or simply learning basic legal skills.
Students in the clinic are fully responsible for managing their caseloads, handling every step from the initial client interview to representing their client at trial. In 2019, she became the director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore. “I wanted to follow in their footsteps.”Īfter graduation, Lora joined Legal Aid Services of Oregon, representing farmworkers in their employment disputes and eventually leading their statewide tax project. “I felt that Professors Caplow and Kotkin were preparing the next generation of lawyers for excellence in the practice of law,” she said. District Judge Jack Weinstein in the Eastern District of New York, and worked with Kotkin on workplace discrimination and wage claim cases in the Federal Litigation Clinic. She represented a Nepalese immigrant in an asylum hearing for the Safe Harbor Project under Professor Stacy Caplow, clerked for U.S. “A clinical experience is one of self-discovery.”Īs a law student, Sarah Lora ’02 had three pivotal clinical experiences. “Clinics aren’t necessarily about learning law they’re about learning how to use the law,” said Grose. Then, in 2006, she joined the faculty of Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. She landed her first teaching job at the University of Connecticut in 1999 that was followed by two years at American University as a practitioner-in-residence for the Women and Law Clinic. District Judge Whitman Knapp in the Southern District of New York and received a Skadden Fellowship to practice family law at Western Massachusetts Legal Services. “From my experience in the Brooklyn Law School clinical program, I found my vocation,” she said.
While the experience confirmed that she didn’t want to be in a courtroom, she discovered that she loved clinical teaching.
She was surprised when Kotkin asked her to be, despite Grose’s hesitation, a teaching assistant for the clinic the following year. What she discovered instead was that she “did not particularly like appearing in court.” In her second year of law school, Carolyn Grose ’94 hoped the Federal Litigation Clinic, run by Professors Minna Kotkin and Kathleen Sullivan, would help her determine her career options in public interest law.
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