Legal Assistance to Incarcerated People
Legal Assistance to Incarcerated People represents prisoners in Wisconsin seeking sentence relief, involving interviews, research, drafting motions, and exploring systemic disparities.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Identify client goals and assist them in achieving these goals.
Develop proficiency in factual investigation, issue spotting and legal research and writing, including advocacy and client communication.
Collaborate with clients, other students, supervisors, and other actors in the criminal legal system.
Recognize ethical issues and resolve or respond to them within the Rules of Professional Responsibility.
Engage in self-assessment and reflection about the clinical work, the role of lawyers, and the criminal legal system.
Source: UW Guide
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Represent people in prison in Wisconsin seeking relief from excessive sentences; may include people suffering from severe mental illness. Interview clients at correctional institutions, conduct legal and factual research, draft letters and motions, and possibly deliver oral argument in court; work on motions for sentence modification, petitions for sentence adjustment, and parole advocacy; reflect on the lawyer's role in the criminal legal system, explore the causes of the disparate impact of criminal punishment on marginalized populations.
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Topics
- Sentence modification, adjustment, and parole advocacy
- Lawyer's role in the criminal legal system and disparate impact on marginalized populations
Skills
- Factual investigation, issue spotting, legal research and writing, advocacy, and client communication
- Recognizing and resolving ethical issues under professional responsibility rules
- Self-assessment and reflection on clinical work and the criminal legal system
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