Fall Moderate Means Practicum

Register now for the Fall Moderate Means Practicum, LPRC-425-A. This experiential learning course is 3 credits and meets Mondays and Wednesdays – 2:30 to 3:45 pm.

Looking for an opportunity to build your client interviewing skills?  Interested in family, consumer, or housing law and want to apply your learning to real clients’ cases?  Want to build or hone your issue-spotting and legal analysis skills?  Want to help moderate income individuals access low-cost legal services?  

This experiential course will give you the opportunity to: 
• Learn about the legal issues that low and moderate income clients most often encounter
• Conduct client interviews via telephone
• Perform legal analysis of interesting cases
• Work with attorneys throughout the state to provide representation

What are students saying about this course?  A 3L student recently shared, “This experience has been the most engaging experience in law school yet, and has given me more confidence in client interaction and my ability to research any civil law topic that comes up.”  

If you have questions or need more information contact the Moderate Means Program Staff Attorney Clay Wilsonwilsoncl@seattleu.edu.  

Space Available in the Moderate Means Practicum

If you have questions or need more information contact the Moderate Means Program Staff Attorney Clay Wilson at wilsoncl@seattleu.edu. 

Moderate Means Practicum

Build practical legal skills! Seattle University's Moderate Means Practicum (LPRC-425-A, 3 Credits; Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:30 to 3:45) is open to all 2 and 3Ls.

The Statewide Moderate Means Program (MMP) is a joint venture between the Washington State Bar Association and the Washington State law schools. The goal of the program is to increase access to civil legal services by people of moderate means who cannot afford an attorney but make too much money to qualify for traditional legal aid services. The program is focused on the areas of family, housing and consumer law.

Law students participating in the practicum will interview potential clients by telephone to collect information and evaluate their cases. Students have the opportunity to interview many different clients with a broad array of legal issues. Qualifying cases will be referred by students to participating attorneys who have agreed to represent MMP clients for a reduced fee.

Benefits to students include:

• Hands-on experience interviewing clients
• Training in substantive legal issues, issue-spotting, interviewing skills and ethics
• Instruction on how to use the Legal Server database, which is used by most of the civil legal aid organizations in Washington State as well as the SU Law clinics
• Supervision and mentoring by experienced attorneys
• The satisfaction of helping moderate income individuals who otherwise might not receive any legal help at all

The total time commitment is eight hours a week. If you have questions or would like additional information please email Clay Wilson.