Unemployment Insurance Clinic - Litigation Seminar
This graded, five-credit course allows students who excelled in the Unemployment Insurance Clinic I to move beyond administrative hearings to more complex oral and written advocacy. Students work on more complex Unemployment Insurance (UI) cases and appellate briefs. Students are assigned multiple cases, and at least one appellate brief each term. Students bid for the course by submitting a short statement of interest and a copy of their resume.
UIC Litigation and Seminar is a 5 credit course and meets the New York Pro-Bono requirement. Students must enroll in the 2 credit seminar and the 3 credit field component, taken concurrently. The 2 credit seminar and 3 credit field component are mandatory graded and ineligible for letter grade conversion to pass (“P”) election. The Clinic fulfills the Law School’s professional responsibility requirement for graduation, but does not fulfill the New York State Bar ethics requirement. For students who matriculated in or after May 2016, the Clinic can either fulfill the Law School’s professional responsibility requirement for graduation, fulfill the upper-level writing requirement, or the credits can count toward the Experiential Learning requirement — it cannot be used to fulfill more than one of these three particular requirements. The Clinic fulfills the Statutory or Regulatory Course Distribution Requirement for graduation applicable to JD students who matriculated in May 2016 and thereafter.