Description of the video:
hi my name is professor carrie hagan
some of you may have had me for property
in years past
and i'm here just to promote the civil
practice clinic which i love
and i have been teaching and working in
for the past 11 years civil practice
clinic
as you may imagine is responsible for
handling
anything that is civil and so in the
past we've done a variety of work
such as divorces or dissolutions as
they're known in indiana
we've had domestic violence cases child
support cases guardianship cases
all kinds of civil cases but in recent
years we've really come to focus on
an area of the law that is new and that
is honestly exciting
and that allows us to serve clients in a
variety of ways
and that is expungement of criminal
records
now i say criminal and some of you might
think wait a second this is the civil
practice clinic
well the fun thing about expungements is
that they deal with
us analyzing and giving advice about
criminal cases but in order to expunge
you
actually have to file for expungement in
civil court
so it's a really fun way for the
students in the clinic to learn
about two areas of law we get a nice
first-hand knowledge of criminal cases
and how they work through the system
and what various outcomes mean and we
get to work
closely with prosecutors in many
different counties throughout indiana
and then when we actually go and file if
we have any hearings we do have those
in criminal court even though what we're
filing
are technically civil pleadings and so
it's been really fun
the last couple of years just to be able
to appear in both of these venues
even though we still are the civil
practice clinic
as a student in the clinic not only
would you have the opportunity to work
on expungement cases and represent those
clients
but we have a very special project set
up with goodwill
industries of southern and central
indiana and we actually
hold half of our classes there during
the semester
where we give brief advice and service
to anyone that goodwill refers
to us once we screen and give advice to
those folks
anyone who is eligible we can represent
for expungement proceedings and there is
no shortage of clients at goodwill and
we
love working with them they're just
amazing partners
not only are we able to enable or to
enable to work with our clients
on these everyday today levels but we
also have been able to have our voice as
a clinic heard
by not only arguing in front of the
supreme court of indiana
but also filing amicus briefs on various
expungement appeals
that have been filed because we feel
that not only
do we want to make an individual impact
with expungement cases
but when there are appeals that deal
with changes in the law that could be
problematic
for our client population as a whole as
a clinic class
we evaluate those appeals and we think
about whether or not
there's an opportunity for us to weigh
in and last spring
we were able to argue with the help of
council
for the folks that were appealing in
front of the indiana supreme court and
it was just an awesome opportunity
to be able to be heard and we really
feel that our advocacy
helped make a fundamental change in the
law
that positively affects all of our
expungement clients going forward
if you have any questions feel free to
reach out i absolutely love my job i
love working in the clinic
not only do we get to do these sorts of
representation things but
every spring when it's not covered we
help run
and are primarily responsible for most
of the direct service rooms at the
re-entry fair
and so i really look forward to having
that again once covet is over
welcome to the virtual experiential fair
and
the civil practice clinic
