Carolyn McAllaster, founder and director of the AIDS Legal Project and a Clinical Professor of Law at the Duke School of Law, speaks to first-year Duke Law students about her clinic and the importance of doing good for the community. She and three other clinical professors, Jeff Ward, Michelle Nowlin and Jane Wettach, led the June 17 discussion on "Doing Good and Expanding Access to Justice While Still a Student."
These faculty represented clinics that covered start-up businesses, environmental law and policy and children's law.
Each professor discussed their clinics and told students that it is possible to get a head start on their career by acquiring real life experience. Law students are eligible to join the clinics after their fourth semester at Duke Law. Clinic students represent clients who do not have the necessary funds to pay for a lawyer.
Photo and story by Jonathan Alexander, a 2013 graduate of N.C. Central University who is working this summer with the Duke Office of News and Communication.