KGACLC Courthouse Clinic
Certificate(s): Public Interest and Social Justice Law (List A)
Course Description:
Students must attend a mandatory training class on the first Saturday of the semester. Thereafter, students must spend between 25 hours (for 1 unit) and 75 hours (for 2 units) assisting and advising unrepresented litigants at the Courthouse Self Help-Center, which is located at 201 North First Street, San Jose. Students will provide this assistance under the supervision of an attorney on Wednesdays between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Students taking 1 unit do NOT need be available for the entire 11-3 time slot on Wednesdays; they only need to schedule approximately 2 hours per week during that slot. Students may not take more than one interviewing and advising class in the same semester. Graded Credit/No Credit.
Class Notes:
Experiential Course.
Credit/No Credit. Consumer/Debtors Practice Area. Students will remotely attend a mandatory training class on the first Saturday of the semester. Thereafter, students must log 25 hours assisting and advising unrepresented litigants, and performing related activity. All students will have the option to log all of those 25 hours remotely. Conditions permitting (including not limited to the reopening of necessary facilities at Courthouse Self Help-Center located at 201 North First Street, San Jose), students may be permitted to log some (not not all) of those hours at the courthouse. Students will provide this assistance under the supervision of an attorney on Wednesdays between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
