Author: Meris Bray
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Susan Bryant, “Collaboration in Law Practice: A Satisfying and Productive Process for a Diverse Profession”
This article examines collaboration among lawyers and argues that lawyers need a new set of skills and perspectives to collaborate more effectively. Collaboration is a process that involves shared decision-making by fellow collaborators, which allows for the development of ideas, leading to collective knowledge. Participatory decision-making models, like collaboration, increase worker satisfaction by relieving the…
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Janet Weinstein et al, “Teaching Teamwork to Law Students”
This article sets out the rationale for teaching teamwork. The authors analyzed survey results they collected from their interdisciplinary classes (law and another discipline) that required teamwork in medicine and social work. This paper is helpful for clinicians in inter- or multi-disiplinary settings. It includes suggestions for how to improve teamwork, some teamwork theory, and…
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Donna Erez Navot, “Tools for the Clinic Professor: Applying Group Development Theory to Collaborative Learning in Law School Mediation Clinics”
This article examines the theory of group development and collaborative learning as applied to a small group law school mediation clinic. When clinical instructors understand the framework and theory of typical group development, they can help to normalize and illuminate the group process in clinical education, and the clinical instructor can anticipate and better deal…
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Deborah Burand et al, “Clinical Collaborations: Going Global to Advance Social Entrepreneurship”
This article chronicles a transactional clinic collaboration between three clinics in the US seeking to advance social entrepreneurship globally. The article discusses why collaboration was used, the structure of the program, what the collaboration offers clients and participating law students, how the collaboration has expanded the skills and knowledge of the three clinical directors, and…
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Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next)
This book examines mutual aid, a model of collective support and collaboration to meet individual and group needs, usually stemming from recognition that systems in a capitalist society will not and has not met people’s needs. There are three key bedrocks of mutual aid: mutual aid projects work to meet survival needs and build shared…
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David F Chavkin, “Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Student Collaboration in Clinical Programs”
This article explores student collaboration in representing clients in clinical courses. It discusses both the benefits and disadvantages of putting students in teams. This article includes a literature review on collaboration and teamwork, as well as interviews with clinicians and students. The author provides recommendations to enhance collaboration in clinical programs. In this model, students…
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Timothy Casey, “Reflections on Legal Education in the Aftermath of a Pandemic”
This article suggests that although some law school courses can be taught online, experiential courses and clinics are not fit for the online space given the specific learning outcomes and in-person benefits, particularly concerning well-being. Online clinics hindered the opportunities for students to benefit from their teachers as mentors, observational opportunities were limited, individual instruction…
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Sarah R Boonin & Luz E Herrera, “From Pandemic to Pedagogy: Teaching the Technology of Lawyering in Law Clinics”
This article examines the role of technology in legal clinics during the pandemic and offers clinicians a series of suggestions for how to be more intentional about the use of technology in clinical programs. The authors use the term “the technology of lawyering” to represent the use of technology in legal practice that allows clients…