The clinic, to be offered for the first time during the fall term, will allow law student interns to represent children in abuse, neglect, foster care review, termination of parental rights, adoption and delinquency proceedings.
The Child Advocacy Clinic is the law school's fifth live-client clinic. The school's other clinics are the Criminal Appellate Practice, the Disability Law Clinic, the Free Legal Aid Clinic and the Small Business Enterprises and Nonprofit Corporations Clinic.
Students participating in the newest clinic will conduct client interviews and home visits, prepare for hearings and trials, advocate for necessary services, perform research, draft motions, and attend juvenile court and foster care review board meetings. In the process, students will learn about the child protection, child welfare and juvenile systems, as well as the roles and responsibilities of lawyers and other actors in those systems.
The Child Advocacy Clinic will be supervised by William Ladd, an adjunct professor and senior staff attorney with the Legal Aid and Defender Association of Detroit's Juvenile Law Division, with David Moss, an assistant clinical professor, who will provide administrative oversight to the program. The Legal Aid and Defender Association of Detroit will provide the clients for the clinic, as well as office space.
The clinic will serve as a four-credit course for Wayne State law students. Enrollment is currently limited to eight students but may go up to 12 in future years.
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Detroit-area families and children in need of legal services are about to get a new place to seek help.
