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Jul 14, 2025
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2011-2012 School of Law Bulletin [Archived Catalog]
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LAWS 830 - Veterans’ Rights Clinic|Credits: 3
This clinic will offer students both skills and substantive instruction in representing veterans in the prosecution of their benefits within the Department of Veterans Affairs’ unique adjudicatory system. Students will be instructed in interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and advocacy as well as the appropriate law of veterans’ claims administration. Students will work on cases from their initiation through representation before the Board of Veterans Appeals and the Court of Appeals of Veterans Claims. The clinic will offer opportunities to conduct initial interviews with clients research the facts and law of cases, counsel clients, assist in filing cases, and prepare cases for administrative consideration. In some cases, students will write a brief and orally argue before an appellate body. All casework will be under the supervision of the professor.
Prerequisites: Veterans’ Right’s Advocacy Seminar; Evidence and Problems in Professional Responsibility or Professional Responsibility.
Note: This course satisfies the skills course graduation requirement.
Basis of Grade: Performance of casework and class participation
Form of Grade: Letter Grade
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