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legal aid organizations and district judges over the six
week internship. This year’s sponsors include: Entergy,
Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore LLC, LSU Paul M.
Hebert Law Center, and Phelps Dunbar, LLP.
▪ Currently, the ATJ Department is working to confirm
sponsors for the 2023 program.
o Participate in LSU Apprenticeship Week
The ATJ program participated in the 2019 & 2020 LSU
Apprenticeship week with a course titled Serving the Public and
the Profession. The 2021 LSU Apprenticeship week program
was canceled.
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.
The ATJ Department will be participating in the 2023 LSU
Apprenticeship week.
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.

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