Category: Working Conditions/Treatment
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Workload & Competing Duties
“I have my own case load over and above what the students have, so there is a lot of work that I also have to do on my own. So, to have somebody coming at the door all the time is really difficult. During covid was particularly difficult because then we had the door, Teams, cell phone, emails,…
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Lack of supervisor training
“How did I learn? I mean when I came to the clinic, there was no training for that, but I think what I brought with me was my history of being a lawyer for 16 years before that, saw me involved in always being a mentor to students… I had that just natural ability that…
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Working Conditions
“Staffing is an issue. Again, there’s only one lawyer in this clinic and the support staff is shared between my clinic and another clinic. I get appointed to an admin person. All of the responsibilities for running the clinic and running the service and managing the actual program for the students is done by 1.2 people and our…