Washburn Law Clinic Partners With Haskell
By Dawn Porter
The Law Clinic has set up shop at Haskell Indian Nations University for Haskell students who may need legal advice or legal representation. Haskell Indian Nations University has recognized that from time to time, its students have a need for legal services and would benefit from on-site legal interns as a service to Haskell students and the Haskell community. The on-site outreach program will help foster positive relationships between students of the two universities as well as provide interns with exposure to tribal court practice and experience representing Native American clients.
This semester the interns interviewed twelve people seeking legal assistance and have accepted three cases for representation of which two are civil matters and one is criminal. The response to the presence of the legal interns at Haskell is very positive and the legal interns are pleased with the number of people who visited their on-site office. The number of contacts and accepted cases is expected to increase in the future.
In addition to the client intake site, legal interns will conduct a legal seminar on a topic of interest to the Haskell community later this semester.
Professor Aliza Organick and her interns, Jared Grauer, Joan Mattingly, Dawn Porter, Melissa Rausch, Becky Rhymer, Gillian Rogers, Adrian Serene, and Jerry Shivley, have all worked on this project and are now enjoying the benefit of providing legal services to those who otherwise could not afford it.
