Category: Annotated Bibliography
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Linden Thomas & Nick Johnson, The Clinical Legal Education Handbook
This handbook is a practical guide for clinicians written by a group of clinicians, clinic professors, and lawyers in the United Kingdom. The handbook consists of seven parts: information regarding legal clinics, regulatory frameworks, assessments, and research on clinical legal education, including the emotional well-beingof clinic members, skill development, and other topics, including supervision. The…
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Gerald Corey et al, Clinical Supervision in the Helping Professions
This chapter, entitled “Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Supervisor”, explores the importance of ensuring that supervisors incorporate diversity perspectives into their supervision through a multicultural supervisory practice. This chapter goes on to provide practical suggestions for incorporating multicultural strategies into supervision. Culture, as applicable to supervision, has been described as such: “By defining culture broadly, to…
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Bill Ong Hing, “Raising Personal Identification Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Physical Disability, and Age in Lawyering Courses”
This paper describes how personal identification issues are raised in three different lawyering classes, one of which is an immigration clinic, and how issues of identity difference can be raised more effectively. In this immigration clinic course, students meet weekly in a group and with supervising attorneys to discuss their work. The group meeting consists…
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Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, “Making and Breaking Habits: Teaching (and Learning) Cultural Context, Self-Awareness, and Intercultural Communication through Case Supervision in a Client-Service Legal Clinic”
This article discusses the teaching and learning of cultural knowledge, awareness, and skills in clinical programs through a variety of methods, including research, reading, roleplay, case rounds, observation, and group discussion. The article offers teaching objectives that can be used to focus supervision and education on effective representation of clients from a variety of cultures.…
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Anne D Gordon, “Cleaning up Our Own Houses: Creating Anti-Racist Clinical Programs”
This article seeks to guide legal clinics to self-evaluate regarding how clinics perpetuate racism unconsciously. This article offers concrete suggestions for implementing change. Law schools are homes to white supremacist culture. Beliefs, values, norms, and standards support the widespread ideology that whiteness holds value. Characteristics of this culture include: perfectionism, either/or thinking, quantity over quality,…
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Michael John McNamara, Supervision in the Legal Profession Regulatory Framework
In this chapter, the author examines the regulatory supervision regimes, particularly within Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Australia has no student practice rules for students engaged in experiential learning opportunities such as clinical programs. Often, these programs operate outside student practice rules; thus, the regulatory framework in place treaties law students the…
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Law Society of Upper Canada v Viktor Serhey Hohots, 2015 ONLSTH 72
In this case, the lawyer supervised other lawyers in his immigration and refugee law practice. He also supervised an interpreter and immigration consultant who conducted work that was the lawyer’s responsibility. The Law Society of Upper Canada (not Law Society of Ontario) alleged misconduct on two grounds, the one relevant for our purposes being: “abdication…
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Law Society of Upper Canada v Deanna Lynn Natale, 2013 ONLSHP 94.
The lawyer in this case supervised staff in her debt collection practice. The Law Society of Upper Canada alleged misconduct on two grounds: the one relevant for our purposes being: “failure to assume complete professional responsibility for her practice and failure to directly and effectively supervise the staff to whom collection activities were delegated”. The…
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Law Society of Upper Canada v Farkas, 2017 ONLSTH 75.
The lawyer in this case was a sole practitioner who primarily practised refugee law. He was responsible for supervising non-lawyers and two Hungarian interpreters when he delegated the task of preparing PIFs to a non-licensee. He did so with little supervision. The lawyer was found to have “breached Rules 2.01(2) and 5.01(2) of the Rules…