The CLEA Elections Committee—Anju Gupta (Rutgers School of Law), Steven Wright (University of Wisconsin School of Law), Erma Bonadero (University of Houston Law Center) and Tiffany Murphy (University of Arkansas School of Law)—is soliciting nominations of individuals to serve on the CLEA Board starting in January 2017.

CLEA submitted a report to the ABA regarding CLEA’s activities since June 2016. Janet Jackson and Maritza Karmely will be attending the ABA Annual Meeting on behalf of CLEA in August 2016.

CLEA submitted a letter to the California State Bar regarding the proposed 15-unit experiential bar admission requirement.

CLEA submitted a comment regarding ABA’s proposed revision for Standard 316.  For those who are not familiar with the change, the proposed revision to Standard 316 eliminates a number of provisions from the existing standard.

Thank you to everyone for supporting CLEA! It's that time of year when CLEA memberships are due for renewal.

It's almost time for the Clinical Conference!  As you're checking items off of your to do before travelling list, here's one you can take care of today--your donation to the Per Diem Project.  

Spring 2016 issue of the CLEA Newsletter has just been posted here: http://cleaweb.org/resources/Documents/CLEANewsletter%20spring%2016%20%28Final%29.pdf. 

The University of Wisconsin’s Neighborhood Law Clinic has played a pivotal role in making Dane County, Wisconsin a safer place for tenants, an economically viable place to live for workers and, through its efforts in the community and legislatively, worked to protect the rights of the underrepresented across our state.

Thanks so much to those of you who participated in our CLEA Strategic Planning Survey at the end of 2015.

The Legal Writing Institute (LWI) has asked that we circulate to CLEA membership LWI’s Statement of Best Practices regarding the 405(c) status positions. CLEA does not adopt this statement, but is circulating it to provide our membership with this information. We appreciate LWI as an ally.

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CLEA submitted comment on the Bar Admission Skills Competency Proposal of the New York Court of Appeals Task Force on Experiential Learning and Admission to the Bar on November 9, 2015.

The schedule for the 2015 conference on Applied Legal Storytelling is out! You will see that we have not one, but two plenary sessions: on "Storytelling and Professional Formation" and on "Feminists Judgments and Storytelling."

CLEA Co-President Mary Lynch testified before the New York Court of Appeals Advisory Committee on the Uniform Bar Examination on Tuesday February 3, 2015.  The New York Law Journal noted Lynch’s comments here.

Clinical Legal Education Association submitted a memorandum on November 3, 2014, in response to the Council's invitation to suggest revisions to the new Standards. 

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Co-sponsored by the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) and CLEA.  This is the 5th Applied Legal Storytelling Conference that CLEA has co-sponsored with LWI and the event represents an important collaboration between the clinic community and the legal writing community.