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The Douglas County Legal Aid Clinic is a general practice clinical legal education program that provides legal assistance to low-income persons, including veterans, in the Municipal Court of the City of Lawrence and the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas. The clinic provides representation in a wide variety of civil law cases, including transactional, family, landlord-tenant, and administrative law. The clinic also provides criminal defense representation of adults in municipal court and juvenile offenders in district court. Students are directly supervised by practicing attorneys and must enroll in the course for 2 consecutive semesters.
The primary responsibility of clinical faculty is clinical teaching and related professional performance. Although their primary responsibility is teaching, clinical professors are also expected to engage in scholarship and service to the profession.
“The University of Kansas is especially interested in hiring faculty members who can contribute to four key campus-wide strategic initiatives: (1) Sustaining the Planet, Powering the World; (2) Promoting Well-Being, Finding Cures; (3) Building Communities, Expanding Opportunities; and (4) Harnessing Information, Multiplying Knowledge. For more information, see http://www.provost.ku.edu/planning/themes/ . “ |
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Teaching and related Professional Performance (85%): The Director of the Clinic is responsible for managing the overall operations of the Clinic. This responsibility includes administering the Clinic, providing direction and leadership, supervising students, support staff and staff attorneys, obtaining and maintaining grants to fund the Clinic, and ensuring that all required grant reports are properly prepared and submitted. Supervision of students involves providing guidance and oversight on their cases, appearing with them in court as needed, reviewing pleadings and other work product prepared by interns, and meeting regularly with interns to ensure that they are receiving proper instructional support. The Director also maintains his/her own caseload as necessary. In addition, the Director is responsible for teaching the classroom component of the Clinic, direct instructional supervision of individual students in the Clinic, and teaching such other courses in the law school curriculum as determined by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Research and Scholarship (5%): Although their primary responsibility is teaching, clinical professors are also expected to engage in scholarship, broadly defined, related to their areas of interest. Demonstrated scholarship is required for promotion, and it is desirable, although not mandatory, for a decision on the first non-probationary appointment.
Service (10%): Clinical faculty members have an obligation to engage in service to the school and university, the profession, or the public. This service obligation, however, is substantially reduced because of the nature of the clinical faculty member’s teaching and related professional performance obligations. |
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1. Applicants must possess a J.D. or equivalent legal degree.
2. Applicants must be a member of the Kansas Bar or willing to become a member by taking the Kansas Bar as soon as practical following appointment.
3. Applicants must have five years of litigation practice and/or clinical legal education experience.
*For a candidate to be considered at the Clinical Professor level, the candidate must demonstrate an established scholarly career in the clinical field and must have a history of effective clinical teaching and experience and substantial service. |
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Applicants with prior clinical or clinical teaching experience and who have achieved excellence in their primary professional and/or scholarly endeavors. |
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Special Conditions: If employee is not licensed to practice in Kansas, the position is contingent upon employee passing the 2015 Kansas Bar exam and being officially admitted to the Kansas Bar.
Application review will begin 1 Sept, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. |
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Jean Phillips, Clinical Professor and Director, Paul E. Wilson Project for Innocence & Post Conviction Rememdies
KU School of Law, 1535 W. 15th Street, Lawrence, KS
66045-7608
785-864-9214
phillips@ku.edu |
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Commensurate with experience |
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01-Sep-2014 |
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05-Jan-2015 |
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