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Law schoo By KAREN LEE Gamecock Staff Writer USC law students are learning ethics and professional responsibility through application in what are called clinical practices courses.. f k/\ink sanukks, director 01 tne law school clinics program,- said students in these courses "learn to be lawyers by acting like lawyers. "I look at it as being like a doctor's internship. There is no experience like practical experience." The clinical courses, or "farm-out" programs, are application-oriented. Most other law courses are theory-oriented, Sanders said. In the clinical training department at IISC. there are eiffht lnwvers "It's lik#? ? large law practice, with me as the senior member," Sanders said. THE LAW school added a fifth clinical education course to its curriculum in fall of 1976. The five courses involve 90 students. In three of the courses, the third-year law students practice in the offices of the Richland County Solicitor's Office, Public Defender's Office, and Legal Aid Program. The two nthpr pliniral pnnpcoc n >-n referred to by Sanders as "in-house" programs. One is the student legal aid program, and in the other course, students work with convicted Columbia inmates who are trying to get parole. The students provide counsel for area citizens. Sanders said "it's a well accepted program in the community." He added that "it's a two-way street. We owe something to the community, and the community assists us." . TOT A i minnPT fA? tUn t a vniiaj A IUI U1C V.11111V.CA1 tices program is $150,000-$160,000. Sanders The Gamecoc POLICY Stereo C oranas a< Hartgrovc Student rates $.15 per word. Non-student rates $.20 per word. All SAC funded Liberia organization rates are $.10 per word ? IDT otherwise required. Minimum charge $1.00. Ads will be taken during the following times: MTW: 2 5 MISCELL PM, T TH: 15 PM. Ads must be made in person and are on a " vou ti cash.in-advance basis only. Oeadline for Garnet & Monday's paper is Friday at 4:30 PM. 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"We have a ennri hit of support from the university in our program." The program is less expensive to the school than in-house programs because the agencies where the attorneys already work pay 60 per cent of their salary, while the law school pays the other 40 per cent. Sanders said that it's much better "to pay a quality professional one-half the salary and get him to teach in the clinic program." He added that the law school could not afford to pay the attorneys to teach "in-house" courses. ALLAN HOLMES, attorney for the legal aid office, Richland County public defender Gaston Fairey and assistant county Solicitor Andrew Savage supervise the law students in caui unite. The office attorneys who work with students spend most of their time with the students and the program. "It is valuable education for the student and valuable research for the offices," Sanders said. Students do research and talk with clients. 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It has hard to fill the slots in the clinics three years ago, but now there is an oversubscription for the classes. Sanders said students are chosen for the classes at random from those who apply, but those who had applied before and been refused are given priority. The South Carolina Supreme Court has a rule that a third-year student can practice law if supervised in any S. C. court except the supreme court. "And we take advantage of that rule to the maximum," Sanders said. STUDENTS WORKINGin the solicitors' office assist in prosecutions. "In every juvenile case that has come through Richland County for the past four or five years, y the prosecution has been handled by the law student clinic," Sanders said. In the defense office, students defend persons in the Columbia area who are too poor to afford counsel private. The office attorney supervises the student, so there is no handicap to the client. The client must sign a waiver that he approves of the student. "What the student lacks in expertise, he makes up with enthusiasm. And these students all had two years of training," said Sanders. Students working in the legal aid program handle such civil matters as adoption, divorce, and contracts. Sanders said particularly in this program the students provide a good servi e saying"if we don't do if a !? >? - !- " ? iv, u iui yunu l UUI1C. Eispccitlliy in dOUUl Carolina, where there are still a lot of rural areas." Legal services are available to Columbia jobs on ships! Mo experience required. IMBWBO' wide travel. Summer job r information. SEAFAX, iMBSIWSIsHBroMin ort Angeles, Washington Wazlyatah For Girls. ShHH ?Y NINGS: Tennis (varsity >; Swimming (WSI); Sailing; Waterskiing; ; Team Sports; Arts & Trips; Photography for s for Theater costumes; i Nurse. SEASON : lunp ttmHiMBHHMMHMMM TE: (with details as to etc.) Director, box 153, In its Februa 022. Telephone: 516 482to answer a qt mind since No i m J J i GRAND Fit'-] 5H-" ^ iS$6 M e discotheque i bhft" ^?lli ff obrvais b wbbsg' eek b mb? r^r b ^ 1 training area students past the high school level in one of the in-house clinics. Although this incluudes such institutions as Midlands Technical College, Benedict College, and Columbia College, only 2 per cent of the school's cases come from these areas. The other 98 per cent are from USC. The other in-house clinic was the first at USC. It deals with prison inmates in matters of parole and was begun in 1969 with 10 students. FOR ALL five clinics, there is a follow-up clinic, called Clinic Two. In this mandatory course, the experienced students who have been involved with the program tutor those students that have not taken those courses. In Clinic Two, students discuss such technical details of law practices, as when to stand up during court proceedings. The clinical courses were mandatory a few years ago, but are not now. "The law school got too big, there was a shortage of manpower," Sanders said, so the mandatory stipulation was dropped. - The S. C. Supreme Court may soon make it mandatory for all law students to go through the clinics, Sanders said. He said this was not a good idea because the curriculum needs to be flexible. He added that "some students just do not want to go into courtroom practice. They just want to run the family business. He said it would also probably require an increase in the law school's budget, depending on how the program was set up. Cam/Iawo nnS/1 n # ?* ?1 MM* 1 M ? ? .'aiuicio ooiu uiai aim atttucniif UUUISCS, clinical ones were the next logical step. The step to follow these should be a combined course, he said, where a subject is taught by a professor while the students simultaneously apply the subject matter. ry issue, National Lampoon sets out lestion that has been on everyone's member 22,1963... IATIF? J | J Ks 1 it si <?,oon t)a>s