The Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) issues this statement because the US News & World Report rankings are upon us.  Many of those who receive ballots in their capacity as clinical directors or faculty members find this ranking process very uncomfortable. 

To read CLEAs comment letter filed with the ABA Council on the proposed Model Rule on Admission of Foreign-Educated Lawyers click here.

The Standards Review Committee met on July 9th & 10th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can read a report of the meeting, written by Claudia Angelos & Carol Chomsky, herealong with the Security of Position Alternatives presented at the meeting.

CLEA submitted this chart to the Standards Review Committee on proposed revisions to Std. 405.  Because a chart posted by the committee just yesterday only compared the 2 proposals that have come out of its subcommittee (Don Polden's proposal and the Wolff/Barry proposal), we put together this quick chart that also shows how proposals from CLEA and from an ABA committee headed by Randy Hertz and Judith Wegner would revise 405.

CLEA submitted comments on the proposed revision to Standard 301-6 regarding Bar Passage Requirements. To read the comments look on CLEAs Advocacy page or click here.

The most recent version of the newsletter can be found here.

The award for Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Law Teachers will be presented to Deborah Epstein from Georgetown Law Center and the award for Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project will be presented to the Albany Law School Civil Rights and Disability Law Clinic directed by Bridgit Burke for its Community Integration Project.

CLEA Newsletter February 2011

Clea newsletter September 2010

CLEA issued this statement regarding the legislative proposals in the Maryland General Assembly to interfere in the operations of the law clinics at the University of Maryland School of Law.

Elliott Milstein, Dean Rivkin, Wally Mlyniec and Ann Shalleck drafted a letter to the ABA Council on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar opposing the new approach to clinicians’ security of position adopted by the Special Committee on Security of Position

CLEA submitted the following statement to the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar on the Report of the Special Committee on Security of Position on July 21, 2008.