Visiting Professor of Practice and Managing Attorney for the PELE Special Education Advocacy Clinic

William & Mary Law School seeks applications for a Visiting Professor of Practice and Managing Attorney for the PELE Special Education Advocacy Clinic, which provides legal services to school-aged children with disabilities and their parents, supervises law students in providing these services, assists in training students in a clinical legal education environment, and provides education and outreach activities, including an annual Institute in Special Education Advocacy.

Required qualifications include: a Juris Doctor degree and valid Virginia state bar license to practice law; knowledge of and experience with IDEA and Sect. 504, and experience representing children with disabilities and their families in special education advocacy. Must have client-based legal experience, advocacy experience, superior research and legal writing skills, and clinical teaching experience. Preferred qualifications include: prior experience in K-12 teaching, experience with interpretation of educational evaluations and testing data.

The Professor of Practice and Managing Attorney’s responsibilities include case work and client representation; clinical teaching; fundraising; community education and outreach, and the annual Institute in Special Education Advocacy. Scholarship is not a requirement of this position.

Salary for this 12-month position will be commensurate with experience within state university range; position includes benefits. Apply at https://jobs.wm.edu/ under instructional faculty. The position is accorded visiting status for the first year of employment. During that term, the candidate may seek, pursuant to the Law School’s and College’s procedures, a further appointment that would be accorded a presumption of continuation from year to year.