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virtually, with interns completing projects for the various
participating civil legal aid programs. This year interns
spent time with Judge Woodruff-White of the Family
Court of East Baton Rouge, Lagniappe Law Lab,
Louisiana Appleseed, Southeast LA Legal Services, The
Pro Bono Project of New Orleans, and The Parole
Project.
▪ The 2021 ATJ Internship Program is set in motion with
two sponsoring organizations and schools; the program
did lose two sponsors for 2021. The working group is set
to meet and develop a strategy to return the 2022
program to all four Louisiana law schools.
▪ Participate in LSU Apprenticeship Week
The ATJ program participated for the first time in the 2019 LSU
Apprenticeship week with a course titled Serving the Public and
the Profession. We plan to participate again in January 2020.
The ATJ Staff will conduct a course for the LSU Apprentice
week. (Jan 6-10, 2020)
Due to COVID-19, LSU Apprenticeship Week 2020 has been
cancelled.
▪ 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
and at LSU’s Apprenticeship week.
Members of the Children’s Law and LSPD Committees are
working with Tulane Law School and Loyola Law School
regarding virtual skills trainings for law students.
▪ 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.
▪ 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.
▪ 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.
However, we have worked with civil legal aid providers to develop
mechanisms to provide services formerly conducted by LCJC.
Providers have shown no interest in relaunching LCJC and no funding
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