The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 03, 1977, Page Page 6, Image 6
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." .
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said two-thirds of the money for the
program comes from federal and local
grants. USC supplies the other third. Sanders
said he would re-apply for the grants
when they expire and expects them to be
reissued. If they are not, he will apply to the
university for funds. "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.
The law school sets limits and standards
for the law students' responsibilities and
makes suggestions to the offices
THERE IS much negotiation between the
agencies and the school as they choose
lawyers to work with the law students, and
the law school has veto power. "We hope to
keep the same prople each year," Sanders
said.
The attorney to student ratio in the
program is approximately 15 to 1.
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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
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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.
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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.
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