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Civil Practice Clinic Featured in Story on Amicus Briefs
06/21/2022
IU McKinney Professor Carrie Hagan and her Civil Practice Clinic students feature prominently in a story about amicus briefs and experiential learning. The news item appears in Indiana Lawyer.
Students in law school clinics filing amicus briefs has been on the increase nationwide, and law professors are in on the trend. The opportunity to delve into an active legal issue by appearing in a case an amicus curiae helps prepare students for practicing law after graduation.
“It was the most amazing experience of my law school career,” Libby Whitaker, J.D. ’20, said in the story. She was part of the Civil Practice Clinic class that drafted an amicus brief from start to finish in an expungement case that was before the Indiana Supreme Court in February 2020. “It was remarkable.” Whitaker is now an attorney with Kids’ Voice of Indiana.
Others with an IU McKinney connection in the story include Professor Carrie Hagan, who teaches in the Civil Practice Clinic; Katelyn Juerling, J.D. ’16; Molly Connor, J.D. ’21; and Chandler Clark, J.D. ’21.
