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Facilitated course curriculum for 2022 LSU Apprenticeship
Week Program that centered around the spectrum of legal
services available to low income Louisianans. The curriculum
included several practical skills training exercises and client
interview simulations, hands-on training in drafting answers to
legal questions on Free Legal Answers, and completing a draft
SRL petition based on a family law hypothetical. This year’s
program also featured guest speakers: Alainna Mire, Chris
Ralston, Greg Landry, Professor Virginia Listach, and Judge
Lisa Woodruff-White.
o Coordinate outreach on children’s and disability law job
opportunities
▪ Members of the Children’s Law and LSPD Committees
offered interview skills trainings for law students at
Tulane University, at Loyola University, and at LSU’s
Apprenticeship week.
▪ The LSU Public Interest Law Society has volunteered to
update the Family Law Training manual created at the
beginning of the pandemic for the benefit of civil legal
aid and volunteer attorneys.
▪ Members of the Children’s Law and LSPD Committees
hosted skills training for law students at Tulane Law
School. Members of both Committees are working with
Loyola Law School to host a similar training.
▪ Members of the Children’s Law and LSPD committees
worked with LSU’s Apprenticeship week in collaboration
with the ATJ Language Access Committee to host a
Client Interview Skills training on January 6, 2022.
▪ Members of the LSPD Committee hosted a cultural
competency skills training at Loyola Law School on
March 18, 2022.
▪ Research methods to increase attorney/legal volunteerism and
develop initiatives and best practices;
Researched other states’ Emeritus rules to provide the Supreme Court
with information for the revision of the LSBA Emeritus Rule.
At the most recent AJT Commission meeting on December 15, 2021,
the Commission agreed to support a pro bono campaign for 2022. The
campaign is currently being developed with the help of the pro bono
subcommittee and various pro bono professionals.
▪ Relaunch the Louisiana Civil Justice Center (LCJC) to work with other
stakeholders to provide civil legal services;
LCJC services are missed during times of disaster response.
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