I 4 The Michigan Daily-Friday, January 9, 1981-Page 5 Law students give aid in clinic By BETH ALLEN When students in the University's Clinical Law Program do their homework, it's not just practice. At stalke are the lives of real people with real legal *problems that aren't always described in the tex- tbooks. Last term, 21 second- and third-year law students provided free legal assistance to indigent clients through the program's general clinic. Under faculty supervision, they handled nearly 150 cases ranging from divorce settlements to Social Security benefits disputes. MOST LAW STUDENTS don't fight their first case until after becoming lawyers, and even three years of law school can leave a void in the student's education, said Steve Pepe, director of the project. "Our goal is to use these cases for training," he said. Under the program, which includes the general clinic, the Child Advocacy Clinic, the Tax Law Clinic and Criminal Appelate Clinic, students can refine in- terviewing, researching, and strategy planning techniques. In addition to case work, which can take anywhere from 15 to 30 hours per week, students must attend WARSAW largest ind O lish demanded some local bers to stay un~ion ,specter of nment confr Most Pol hour week o gI111sixtQh sixh federation meeting i demand for strike. The governmen worWeek week would economy. weekly seminars to learn more about their specific area. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers serve important functions in the program. In the general clinic, psychiatrists review video-taped in- terviews with students to point out how they can be more effective and to warn them about how they might be manipulating a client. SOCIAL WORKERS in the Child Advocacy Clinic, which deals with child custody or abuse cases, act as intermediates between the child and the clinic. "The students can learn how the legal profession fits in with these other professions," said Don Duquette, co- director of the Child Advocacy Clinic. Students are very supportive of the program and like the exposure to the clinical side of practicing law. "You're faced with real life people and the book doesn't always apply," said Portia Moore, a member of the child clinic last term. Third-year student Kay Gouwens said she felt her experience in the general law clinic was valuable in that it helped her to make the decision whether or not she wanted to go into one of the areas of law involving petrified of litigation," she said, and some practical experience helped lessen her fears. THE CASES THE general clinic students take on are referred to them either through the Washtenaw County Legal Aid Service or through court and private referrals. "The types of legal problems that you deal with aren't the most challenging, but that's the nature of the beast," said student Mark Taylor of his caseload. Child advocacy clinic student Skip Rose found that the program presented challenges other than the simple nature of the cases. He found himself dealing with a few "highly belligerent" and difficult advisory attorneys. "It's frustrating to think they can throw the court off," he said. Although few will argue that a term of clinical law is not beneficial, the program's instructors worry that some members of the faculty may discourage students from taking the course. TRADITIONALLY, lawyers receive their legal ex- perience after joining a legal firm. According to Roy Danial, an advisor with the general legal clinic, many academic professors feel that the students "didn't litigation. "I took clinic W, Poland (AP)-Poland's dependent union yesterday a five-day workweek and chapters instructed mem- home Saturday, raising the a nationwide union gover- rontation. es now work a six-day, 46- of five eight-hour days and a our day. GH THE NATIONAL union Solidarity vowed during a n Gdansk to defend its r free Saturdays, it stopped threatening a nationwide action was taken despite the t's claim that a 40-hour work d further cripple the nation's largely because I was need it before; why do theypeed it now?" Solidarity's determination to gain free Saturdays was the first major threat to the .relative calm that has prevailed in Poland since lasttDecem- ber, when Soviet and Soviet-bloc troops massed, on Poland's borders, raising fears of military intervention. Western and Czechoslovak sources said, however, that military activity along Czechoslovakia's border with Poland has decreased. 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