Visiting Professor of Practice and Staff Attorney, Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic

William & Mary Law School seeks applications for a Professor of Practice and Staff Attorney for our Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic. The Staff Attorney position in the Puller Clinic is a position created to provide direct client services to the Veteran/Active Duty population and to assist in training students in a clinical legal education environment. 

The mission of the Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic is to deliver client services to veterans seeking disability compensation before the Department of Veterans Affairs and veterans seeking discharge upgrades, physical evaluation board representation, and/or medical retirement before the Department of Defense.  The Puller Clinic also trains law students in a clinical law school setting to be thoroughly familiar with a difficult area of administrative law, to develop basic and advanced law office management skills, to refine research and legal writing abilities, to interview clients and witnesses, and to create relationships with clients and investigate and advocate on their behalf both orally and in writing.

Required qualifications include: Knowledge of the Department of Defense rules and regulations concerning separations, medical retirements, discharge upgrades, and physical evaluation boards; knowledge of the Department of Veterans Affairs rules and regulations.  Also must have client-based legal experience, advocacy experience, superior research and legal writing skills, and clinical teaching experience.  JD and valid state bar license to practice law required; prior service in a military service’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, including completion of JAG Officer Basic Course, and accreditation by the Department of Veterans Affairs preferred. 

The Staff Attorney for the Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic’s responsibilities include clinical teaching; case work and client representation; community education and outreach; and assistance in fundraising.  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.