Here's the Spring line-up of classes:
Domestic Violence Clinic - I'm be working 1.5 days a week at Dorchester District Court to help people who want to get a restraining order. The relevant statute is 209A, if anyone is looking for some light reading. DV Clinic is worth 6 credits, so it's the equivalent of 2 classes, and I'll get access to the clinic space and some work-study credit too!
Advanced Crim - this is a "jail to bail" course and we are talking about what happens when someone is arrested. The professor has been at NUSL forever and regales us with stories of New England Innocence Project cases from the 70s, so he really knows his stuff. 3 credits.
Trusts & Estates - your basic will-writing, this will be on the bar exam course. Worth 4 credits because each class lasts two hours instead of ninety minutes... It's in the worst classroom at NUSL, which it makes it feel even longer.
Criminal Trial Practice - this is a simulation class where each week students are assigned to be prosecution or defense counsel, and someone plays a witness giving testimony. We're in the courtroom which is great, and any students not arguing sit in the jury box. (Courtroom pic - click the second photo on this photo album.) CTP is 2 hours once a week for 2 credits and is taught by a sitting Superior Court judge!
So if you're doing the math, I'm signed up for 15 credits which is a little heavy, and my Tuesdays are killer since I'm in court 8:30-1 and then drive to school for class 1:40-3:10, 3:20-5:20, and 5:30-7:30. Which is terrible, but I'm three weeks in, eight to go, so hopefully I will make it.
Domestic Violence Clinic - I'm be working 1.5 days a week at Dorchester District Court to help people who want to get a restraining order. The relevant statute is 209A, if anyone is looking for some light reading. DV Clinic is worth 6 credits, so it's the equivalent of 2 classes, and I'll get access to the clinic space and some work-study credit too!
Advanced Crim - this is a "jail to bail" course and we are talking about what happens when someone is arrested. The professor has been at NUSL forever and regales us with stories of New England Innocence Project cases from the 70s, so he really knows his stuff. 3 credits.
Trusts & Estates - your basic will-writing, this will be on the bar exam course. Worth 4 credits because each class lasts two hours instead of ninety minutes... It's in the worst classroom at NUSL, which it makes it feel even longer.
Criminal Trial Practice - this is a simulation class where each week students are assigned to be prosecution or defense counsel, and someone plays a witness giving testimony. We're in the courtroom which is great, and any students not arguing sit in the jury box. (Courtroom pic - click the second photo on this photo album.) CTP is 2 hours once a week for 2 credits and is taught by a sitting Superior Court judge!
So if you're doing the math, I'm signed up for 15 credits which is a little heavy, and my Tuesdays are killer since I'm in court 8:30-1 and then drive to school for class 1:40-3:10, 3:20-5:20, and 5:30-7:30. Which is terrible, but I'm three weeks in, eight to go, so hopefully I will make it.
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