Summer Remote CLI

4-5 Credit Hours

(variable option 4-5 credits. Each credit requires 42.5 hours)

Overseeing Professor: Christine Cerniglia, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical and Experiential Education [email protected]

 

Program Description:

This is an experiential clinical course structured to provide students an opportunity to pursue an approved field experience in a location outside of our traditional clinical courses. This course is offered during the summer to allow a limited number of students an opportunity to pursue a student practitioner or remote C.L.I. clinical experience. Students must earn a certain number of field hours based on their credit enrollment and attend a weekly virtual course. The virtual class will be cohesive in that the students will have relatively similar (and therefore mutually relatable practice experiences, within the guardrails of student practitioner rules including Chapter 11 of the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar and other movements across the country regarding practical skills and minimum competence standards relevant for admission into the profession. 

The virtual class will incorporate broadly applicable content to reinforce skills and values relevant to students’ first forays into practice, including: the study of ethical rules pertaining to supervision, confidentiality, and conflicts of interest; provide some training leading to technical competence related to reoccurring lawyering tasks and skills, including the use of technology. Students will explicitly acknowledge and build the necessary habits for effective cross-cultural lawyering; the five stages of reflective practice and the brain science behind cultivating happiness in practice. Students will share experiences through clinical rounds and reflect upon their own professional identity.

Program Requirements:
• 42.5 hours per credit;
• Weekly classroom component which meets on Mondays from 5:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
• Multiple reflective papers.

Eligibility Requirements:
• Successful completion of four semesters and at least 48 credit hours;
• Be in good academic standing;
• Must have received a Notice of Registrant Clearance from The Florida Board of Bar Examiners or expect to receive one at least eight weeks before participating in a clinic program.
• Additional pre-requisites may be required based on individual placement

Application Requirements:
• Submit a completed application by the appropriate deadline (for more information, visit the Clinics and Externships page.); and
• Timely submit additional documentation as required for this program. (Students are notified of additional requirements after applying and being provisionally placed in the program.)

*Within the application (cover letter) students must document that they have secured their own remote clinical experience and explain why, in their view, the opportunity is consistent with their personal and educational goals as beneficial for them to accept as a student practitioner earning course credit.