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Spring 2012

First Class is Monday, January 9, from 3:30 to 5:20. Attendance is mandatory. Readings will be placed in your mail folder before class. Also see readings schedule below.

Each student must schedule a 30 minute meeting with the clinic faculty during the first week of classes. Link to the google-docs sign-up sheet here: http://tinyurl.com/First-Week-Meeting-Sign-up

Course Materials:

All the course readings and forms are contained in the Clinic Binder, which you will receive at the first class. First class readings will be placed in your mail folder.

Drop/Add:

Note that because we need to start case assignments in the second week of the semester, Drop/Add for clinics ends on Friday, January 13. If you have any thoughts of dropping the clinic, please speak with Carolyn McAllaster as soon as possible.

Out of Class Activities:

First Week of Classes

Introductory meeting with Carolyn, Allison & Hannah (see above) -- sign-up is on Google docs - follow this link to sign up
Office hours and meetings sign-up: On Google docs . Follow this link to sign up
Office Tour - Sign up for a tour with our assistant, Sandra Pettiford.
State Bar Form - must be submitted by Friday at noon. To complete the form, you must first read:
- North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct:
- North Carolina Rules Governing Practical Training of Law Students
- North Carolina Rules of Professional Rules Handbook 2011 -- contains the two documents above. (You don't need to read this entire handbook, just the above, which you will have to certify you've read)

Second Week of Classes:

Computer/Case Management Software Training: You will need to sign up for a 1.5 hour session to be trained in the clinic case management software, Time Matters. Trainings will be held in the clinic pods. You will receive a computer code sheet at the training. You'll receive an e-mail about scheduling.
Clinic Intensive: Friday, January 20, 8:30 - 5:00. This session is mandatory. We will provide a light breakfast as well as lunch. The day will conclude with a visit to the Duke Infectious Diseases Clinic.

Road Trips

Road trips provide students with the opportunity to meet with clients in areas outside of the Triangle. Students always feel that these trips are a high point of the semester. The trips are a great way to help you quickly gain confidence and experience. All travel and client time is counted toward your clinic hours. For each trip, one of the Supervising Attorneys takes a group of about 3-8 students to interview new clients and to prepare and execute advance directives such as a Power of Attorney, Health Care Power of Attorney, Living Will, Standby Guardianship Designation. We also do intakes for Wills. We encourage you to sign up for at least one road trip during the semester.

Road Trips (Tentative)

Triad Health Project in Greensboro, NC, February 10
AIDS Care Service, Winston-Salem, NC
ALFA -- Fairgrove Primary Health, Hickory NC, February 17

Readings

Unless otherwise specified, readings are from the Clinic Binder

Journal Requirement

Journals are due every other Monday. Due dates:
1/16, 1/30, 2/13, 2/27, 3/19, 4/2
Final journal due before end of semester

Course Requirements

Syllabus/Readings -- Tentative

Week	Event/Class	Assignments
1	Individual meetings/orientation with Carolyn, Allison & Hannah Wednesday 1/11 & Thursday 1/12 Sign-up Sheet	**Turn in forms received in mail folder:** Outside Employment Form Initial Skills & Interests Inventory Student Experience & Interest Form Confidentiality Form
	Office Tour 20 minute tour with Sandra Pettiford, our office admistrator. Sign up sheet online
	CLASS: Monday, January 9 Course overview, Confidentiality, Advance Directives	*Readings* from Packet in Mail folder, including Advance Directives manuscript Forms Advance Directives Powerpoint Read the following before completing the Advance Directives quiz, which is due Friday NCGS Chapter 32A -- Powers of Attorney and Health Care Powers of Attorney NCGS 90-320 et seq -- Living Will Statute (Right to a Natural Death)
	Friday, January 13	Turn in State Bar Form by noon Friday,: Advance Directives Quiz -- submit via e-mail to Carolyn
2	Monday, January 16 -- MLK Holiday -- NO CLASS Weekly meetings start this week. If your meeting is on Monday, we can go forward as scheduled or reschedule for another time this week. Do *at least* 4 office hours this week. During office hours, review office manual, work on the OFFICE QUIZ/SCAVENGER HUNT (due Wednesday, 1/25), and review the client files you receive.	Journal 1 due
	Friday, January 20 -- Duke Clinics Intensive, 8:30 - 5:00 Morning: Small Group Session -- Room 4172 Review Advance Directives Quiz Disability: Medical Aspects AIDS 101 Introduction to Social Security Disability How to read medical records The Lawyer and technical expertise: Medicine Medical Research Tools Office Procedures Lunch: 12:30 (room 4049 - Moot Court room) 12:30 - 12:45 -- Get Lunch 12:45 - 1:00 - Welcome & Clinic Faculty Introductions 1:00 - 1:30 - Professor Don Beskind, Perspectives on Clinical Educaiton and Professional Development 1:30 - 1:45 - BREAK 1:45 - 3:15 - Ethical Issues in Clinic Representation (Allison) 3:15 - 3:45 - Go over to Duke Infectious Diseases Clinic (Clinic 2J, Duke South) 3:45 - 4:45 - Session at Duke Infectious Diseases Clinic with Dr. Gary Cox and Kara McGee, PA	*Reading* Browse New York Times video vignettes \| Patient Voices: AIDS and H.I.V. NPR piece on Living Longer with AIDS From Clinic Binder , Reference Section, HIV Transmission FAQs Bartlett, Finkbeiner, LIVING WITH HIV INFECTION, The Johns Hopkins University Press: (starting on Binder, Social Security Readings, p. 57) Chapter 3-- HIV Infection and its Treatment Chapter 6 -- Complications of HIV and Their Treatment From the Clinic Binder -- Wettach, “The Determination of Disability within the Social Security System; (Binder Social Security Readings, pp. 3-13) Social Security Overview Powerpoint 20 CFR 404.1529 How we evaluate symptoms, including pain. From the Clinic Binder: Look at Medical Abbreviations and Symbols, binder, Social Security Readings Section, p. 121 Review Office Manual and Office Forms in Clinic Binder especially the "Two Page Intake" and Ryan White Verification Procedures
3	Weeks of January 23 and January 30 --- Simulated Documents Interview Sign up sheet in Google Docs	Sign-up for a time to interview your "client," who will role-played by Allison, Carolyn, or Hannah. The interview will be recorded. You will get immediate feedback from your "client." Then you will watch the DVD and do a self-evaluation to be turned in at your next weekly meeting. You will need to bring all intake forms to the "interview." Recommended: Jacob Whiteside interview (with Carolyn as interviewer). Try to take a look at this before your first interview. (This is also linked from the sign-up sheet page, along with a list of events in the interview)
	CLASS: Monday, January 23 -- Wills & Client Interviewing Introduction to client interviewing Review Wills quiz, scenarios	Wills Quiz -- DUE by noon - Email to Allison Readings/Assignments Wills Materials and Forms in Binder: NCGS §§ 31-1 through 31-11.6 Wills NCGS §§ 32-26, 32-27 Powers of Fiduciaries NCGS §§ 29-13, 14, 15 & 30 Intestate Succession Provisions NCGS §§ 30-3.1 through 30-3.6 Spouse's Elective Share NCGS §§ 30-15, 16, 17 Spousal Entitlement to Year's Allowance NCGS 36C-4-4-8 Trust for Care of Animal Plain English Translations -- to help you talk with your clients about documents Estate planning scenarios -- be prepared to discuss these scenarios. You do not need to turn anything in. Read: Cochran, DiPippa & Peters, The Counselor-at-Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counselling, Chapters 3-4.: We have several copies of this book in the clinic pod, on the bookshelf.
	DUE Wednesday, January 25	Office Quiz/Scavenger Hunt -- submit to Carolyn
4	CLASS: Monday, January 30 - Overview of Social Security Disability Law and Procedures	Journal 2 Due Reading/Assignment: From the Clinic Binder, Disability Readings Section, pp. 43-54 -- Disability Protocols; Disability Forms Section, p. 3-7, Disability Checklist Clinic Binder, Disability Readings Section, pp. 115-118, Guidelines for Reviewing & Charting Medical Charts and Medical Chart Examples. Clinic Binder, Disability Readings Section, pp. 15-42, HIV as a Chronic Disease. Clinic Binder, Social Security Law Tab: pp 29-38 Social Security HIV Listings at 20 U.S.C. Part 404, Subpart P, Appendix 1, §14.00 (in Clinic Binder, Social Security Law, p. 29 or on web ). Be sure to read the introductory materials and the entire 14.08 listing Clinic Binder Social Security Law Tab: p. 16, 20 CFR 404.1545 Your residual functional capacity,
	Friday, February 3	By Noon -- SBG Quiz -- e-mail to Carolyn. You'll need to read the materials for Monday's Class
5	Monday, February 6, Documents Explanation & Standby Guardianship You will explain drafted documents to your "client," played by Allison, Carolyn, or Hannah. Next, you will explain client's options for planning for her children and answer her questions about SBG.	Review prepared documents & be prepared to answer your client's questions Review wills and advance directives materials as needed. Standby Guardianship Materials in Clinic Binder including: Carolyn McAllaster, Permanency Planning for Children of HIV Infected Parents Standby Guardian Flow Chart Standby Guardian Checklist Checklist of Planning Considerations Standby Guardianship Brochure Browse Standby Guardian Forms NCGS 35A-1370, Standby Guardians for Minor Children Standby Guardianship powerpoint slides
	Friday, February 10 Road Trip to Triad Health Project in Greensboro, NC. Student sign-up will be distributed in advance.	Social Security Quiz 1 - Turn in by noon. Social Security Slideshow
6	Monday, February 13 -- Disability - Process, Mechanics, Electronic File, Steps 4 & 5	Journal 3 Due NPR piece on disability backlog Clinic Binder, Readings Tab: Tom Bush Social Security Practice, Chapter 1, pp. 151-180. From the Clinic Binder -- Browse Social Security Forms. Vocational Materials in Clinic Binder -Social Security Readings section, pp. 181-96 -Social Security Law Section: Introduction to "Grids" (20 CFR Pt 404, Subpt P, Appendix 2), starts on p. 49, Look at Grid tables Regulations, pp. 17-23 Review Social Security Protocols
	Friday, February 17	Social Security Quiz 2 - due by Noon
7	Monday, February 20 Theory of a Disability Case In this class, we will work as a group to develop a theory of a disability case. You will review a client file and apply the five step sequential evaluation. In preparation for the class you must review and take notes on the client file. You will complete the five-step sequential evaluation for the client, and turn in your analysis before class.	Readings: Client disability file - saved in Time Matters under the "case" "AIDS Training" Review Social Security disability listings, grids, vocational materials, and law to consider possible theories for the client's case. Helpful references: -20 CFR 404.1526 Medical Equivalence (Binder, SS Law Section, p. 9) -POMS - Medical-Vocational Terms, Physical Limitations, Mental Limitations, (Binder, SS Law, pp. 85-103) -Components of the Definition Trailer (Binder, Social Security Readings, pp. 190-96) We will organize our discussion around the five steps. Bring your notes to class to facilitate our conversation.
8	Monday, February 27 -- Case Rounds	Journal 4 due Prepare one page memo on the case/issues you will present & save in Time Matters to the "Training" case Read memos posted by your colleagues
	Mid-Semester Self-Assessment	Before Break please submit your mid-semester self-assessment. When you leave for break, please make sure your files are in order and you have informed the supervising attorneys of any matters that need to be dealt with in your absence
	Week of March 5 - SPRING BREAK
9	Monday, March 12 - Case Rounds	Prepare one page memo on the case/issues you will present & save in Time Matters to the "Training" case Read memos posted by your colleagues
10	Monday, March 19 -- CLASS TBA	Journal 5 due
11	Monday, March 26 -- CLASS TBA
12	Monday, April 2 -- CLASS TBA	Journal 6 due
13	Monday, April 9 -- CLASS TBA
	Final Class -- DATE TBA Food provided Wrap up and feedback	Final Journal Due 24 hours before Exit Interview

End of Semester, Check-out, Exit Interview:

Office hours end when classes are over. You must complete your work before the end of exams. You can "check out" of the clinic when you have

Logged 150 hours, AND
Finished client projects

Schedule your Exit Interview when you have finished all client work & hours
At least 24 hours before the Exit Interview, turn in:

Updated Skills Inventory
Final Journal
Final time

At the Exit Interview, turn in:

Case Check-out forms
Final Check-out form

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