Responsibilities include interviewing clients, advising clients on entity choices, preparing documents, conducting legal research, training clients and community members on types of nonprofit organizations, roles and responsibilities of board members, tax returns § 501(C)(3), and other community development matters. Temple runs a large law-related education project, Temple-LEAP (Law Education and Participation). LEAP is a multi-level legal and political education program that teaches law to non-lawyers. LEAP leads the John S. Bradway programs, which include the Philadelphia High School Moot Court Competition, Advocacy Day, Judges` Experiences, and Basic Moot Court Programs. Through Temple–LEAP, law students can participate in Teen Court, an alternative discipline program currently conducted at seven Philadelphia public high schools, the North Philadelphia Firearms Reduction Initiative, an after-school program that trains youth to become peer educators on gun violence, and the Philadelphia Urban Law Student Experience (PULSE) project. a collaboration between Temple and the University of Pennsylvania Law. School, which aims to help students from both law schools meet the legal needs of Philadelphia`s underserved populations and implement law-related education programs in local schools. Legal service providers often face the challenge of providing complex and evolving legal advice to a variety of people.
The Student Public Interest Network (SPIN) is a student-led organization that raises funds to provide modest salaries to temple law students so they can work for public interest legal organizations during the summer. The number of grants awarded depends on the number of eligible applicants and the amount of funds raised. For more information, please contact Karen Forman, Esquire, Director, at 215/204-2248 or karenf@vm.temple.edu. A description can be found under law.temple.edu/resources/financial-aid/public-interest-fellowship/ Students are provided with a practical, substantive and procedural context in which death penalty cases are heard by both courts and appellate courts. The program allows students to evaluate a case – factually and legally – and to plan and conduct research and incorporate that research into an ongoing legal or constitutional challenge. Prior to the spring of 2005, Temple did not have a staff member in the Office of Career Planning who was exclusively or primarily concerned with the public interest. Public interest support was primarily provided by the Office of Public Programs. Temple decided in early 2005 to restructure its public interest resources and hire a Director of Public Programs (the Director) to work in the Office of Career Planning, and the Office of Public Programs was closed. The principal is responsible for all career guidance services in the public interest, as well as for coordinating the school`s pro bono curriculum. Death Penalty Litigation – This clinical program provides students with the unique opportunity to study the death penalty and participate in different stages of capital punishment defense.
Students will help develop facts and legal arguments to support state habeas corpus challenges for death sentences and post-conviction or federal convictions, as well as prepare petitions for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court and prepare motions for suspension of executions. Students will be paired with attorneys who actively participate in death penalty trials and/or develop systemic challenges to Pennsylvania`s death penalty law. The pro bono program is funded by the Faculty of Law. In addition, the Faculty of Law provides groups of students with a desk, computer and office supplies. Student groups can apply for funding for a pro bono project from the Student Bar Association in the initial budget application or throughout the year if necessary. Nonprofit Advocacy – In partnership with the Center for Community Nonprofit Organizations at the School of Law, students provide nonprofit organizations that work to improve the physical, social, and economic environment of low-income Philadelphia communities. Students deal with a variety of transactional law matters, including: entity selection, incorporation, government documents, tax exemption application, leases, contracts, property and sales tax exemption application, as well as employment and business advice and general assistance with real estate development. Oversees the activities of Temple-LEAP (Law Education and Participation), a professionally staffed legal education program funded by private foundations and government grants. For more information, please contact Program Coordinator Roberta West, 215/204-8948 or rwest001@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu); This award was created by her husband Mark Flood (`90) in memory of Beth Cross (`90), former Executive Director of the Legal Clinic for the Disabled, and is presented to the graduate who is planning a career in public interest law and demonstrating Ms.
Cross` commitment to providing legal aid to underserved populations.