Course Information
The Tenants’ Rights Legal Residency Clinic is dedicated to the student experience and uses a multimodal approach for an encapsulating hands-on learning opportunity. This course includes a seminar component that addresses the housing crisis and landlord-tenant law. Under the guidance and individualized attention of a Legal Residency supervising attorney, students take on active cases. Student attorneys are entrusted on the journey of true representation where they develop the early stages of their case by interviewing clients, engaging in fact gathering and providing client counseling. Ultimately, student attorneys prepare for and conduct hearings, becoming comfortable appearing and speaking in Court. As members of the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, students gain valuable insight and experience in public interest work, participating in a variety of initiatives aimed at addressing the housing crisis, including policy and law reform. Housing law is an intersectional issue that future clients are likely to be facing as a collateral consequence of many other areas of law such as family law and criminal law.
Residency students learn about the social and economic impact of housing law and policy and evaluate strategies for addressing the housing affordability crisis.
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to demonstrate the skills, knowledge, and values in the following areas:
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