Vermont Law and Graduate School to host 2023 New England Clinical Conference

Vermont Law and Graduate School is thrilled to host the 2023 New England Clinical Conference (NECC 2023) this March 31, 2023.  The New England Clinical Conference is a one-day gathering for clinical faculty from law schools in the New England region.  For our first in-person gathering since 2019, our theme will be: It's the End of the Law as We Know It (And I Feel Fine?): Clinical Teaching in a New World.  This event offers opportunities to strategize and discuss clinical teaching in the context of recent seismic shifts in the legal profession and the legal system, and how we can better adapt to meet students' needs in a time of rapid change.

More information is here.

NExt

For several years, representatives of externship programs at many of the law schools in New England met occasionally to support program development. In 2019, the group formalized its meetings and formed the New England Externship Consortium (NExt). Current member schools include:

• Boston College
• Boston University
• Harvard Law
• New England Law | Boston
• Northeastern
• Quinnipiac University
• Roger Williams University
• Suffolk University
• UMass Dartmouth
• University of Connecticut
• University of Maine
• University of New Hampshire
• Vermont Law and Graduate School
• Western New England

The purpose of the consortium is to share externship-related information and to support development of rigorous educational experiences for law students engaged in field work. The consortium has developed recommendations on remote work, explored ways to enhance DEI issues in our programs, and collaborated on a training for supervising attorneys and judges.

The first joint training for supervisors, Supervising in a New Legal Environment: Guide to Effective Law Student Supervision, was held on August 18, 2021:

The slides from the training may be downloaded here.

Additional materials from the training:

• Assignment Ideas Handout
• Onboarding & Orientation Handout
• Onboarding & Orientation Resource Page
• Principles for Working with Students from Historically Marginalized Populations...
• Recommended Videos and Recorded Webinars for Externship Supervisors (Note: link downloads a .doc)

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