THE CLINICS

• Community & Economic Development Law Clinic
• Criminal Justice Clinic
• D.C. Law Students in Court
• Disability Rights Law Clinic
• Domestic Violence Clinic
• General Practice Clinic
• Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic
• Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic
• Immigrant Justice Clinic
• International Human Rights Law Clinic
• Women & the Law Clinic

APPLYING TO CLINIC AY 2013-14

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• Information Sessions
• Conflicts of Interest
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CURRICULUM INFORMATION

• Learning Goals
• Lawyering Skills
• Orientation
• Clinic Seminars
• Casework & Supervision
• Case Rounds
• Faculty by Clinic

OTHER EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

• Externship Program
• Trial Advocacy Program

Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic

A Gift of Robert Glushko and Pamela Samuelson

This full-year clinic will be offered for the thirteenth year in 2013-2014. It will be staffed by Director Victoria Phillips as well as by Professor Peter Jaszi and Practitioner-in-Residence Nabila Isa-Odidi. The clinic concentrates on client representation that helps student attorneys better understand the concept of the public interest in copyright, patent, trademark, and allied fields.

Student attorneys in the clinic will participate in two kinds of matters. Student-managed projects will involve advising creative artists, non-profit organizations, small inventors and entrepreneurs, scholars, traditional communities, and others who otherwise would not have access to high-quality intellectual property law services, as well as representing them before various agencies (Copyright Office, Patent and Trademark Office, World Intellectual Property Organization, etc.) Faculty-managed projects will be designed to promote intellectual property law reform, and may include filing amicus briefs in high-profile legal cases and administrative proceedings, preparing reports on current issues, and conducting legislative advocacy.

The clinic calls on student attorneys' resourcefulness and intellectual flexibility and rewards participants with practical exposure to a wide array of lawyering skills and issues. Applicants for this clinic should have taken (or be intending to take in the fall semester) at least one intellectual property course as well as Evidence. Applicants with more extensive academic/practical experience in intellectual property law may be given preference in admission to the clinic. Those who designate this clinic as a first choice are encouraged to discuss their interest in intellectual property as part of the applicant essay.