AIDS Clinic Readings
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Fall 2009
First Class is Tuesday, August 25. Attendance is mandatory. Readings will be placed in your mail folder before class.
Course Materials:
All the course readings and forms are contained in the Clinic Binder. This is available in hard copy, CD, and here: Clinic Binder
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, August 28. If you have any thoughts of dropping the clinic, please speak with Carolyn McAllaster as soon as possible.
Out of Class Activities:
Office hours and meetings sign-up: Come to the clinic office and sign up for your times.
Introductory meeting with Carolyn & Allison: Sign up for a half hour meeting with us during the first week of school. Sign-up sheet will be circulated in class.
Office Tour - Our assistant, Sandra Pettiford, will be giving group tours of the clinic office. Sign up for one of these sessions, which will be held the first and second week of classes. The earlier, the better.
Time Matters Training - You will need to sign up for a 1.5 hour session to be trained in the clinic case management software. Trainings will be held in the clinic pods. You will need your code sheet, which will be placed in your mailbox.
Clinic Intensive: Friday, September 4, 10:00 - 6 . This session is mandatory
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.
- First Road Trip: September 18, Greensboro (Tentative)
Readings
Unless otherwise specified, readings are from the Clinic Binder. The binder will be distributed electronically, and some hard copies are available.
- Journals are due every other Monday. Due dates:
August 31
September 14
September 28
October 26
November 9
November 23
Final journal due before end of semester
Course Requirements
Videotaping Requirement
Tuesday, August 25:
Course overview, Advance Directives, Office Procedures Overview
Readings from packet in placed in your mail folder, including
- Advance Directives Tabs in Manual, including
Manuscript and forms. - North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct: from North Carolina Bar website
- North Carolina Professional Rules Handbook 2009 (including Rules of Conduct, Student Practice Rules, etc)
- North Carolina Rules Governing Practical Training of Law Students
Monday, August 31
Journal 1 due
Tuesday, September 1
Wills, Social Security Disability Intro
- Advance Directives Quiz (please submit by Monday, noon)
- From the Clinic Binder -- Read Wills manuscript, Forms, annotated will and Powerpoint
- Wills Quiz (please submit by Tuesday, 1:00 p.m.)
- Estate planning hypos
- Plain English Translations to help you talk and write about wills
Friday, September 4, 10-6:
Duke Clinics Intensive Training, room 4045.
Lunch Provided!
- AM session:
Ethics, Access to Justice
PM session:
- Social Security Disability - Overview and appeal process
- Interviewing simulations - Documents Clients (Jacob Whiteside & Sheila Jones)
Assignments:
- Jennifer Howard, Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer" Through Experience
- Memo re Supervision Meetings (review - we discussed this in our individual meetings last week)
- Review Office Manual and Office Forms (in Clinic Binder/CD/)
- 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.
- Interview fact patterns (handed out in class Tuesday 9/1)
- From the Clinic Binder/CD -- Wettach, “The Determination of Disability within the Social Security System;
Week of September 7
Simulated Living Will/Health Care Power of Attorney client interview.
Sign-up for a time to interview your "client," who will role-played by one of the clinic faculty. 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.
Tuesday, September 8
AIDS 101, Medical Aspects of Disability
- NPR piece on disability backlog
- NPR piece on Living Longer with AIDS
- Bartlett, Finkbeiner, LIVING WITH HIV INFECTION, The Johns Hopkins University Press:
Chapter 3-- HIV Infection and its Treatment
Chapter 6 -- Complications of HIV and Their Treatment - Social Security HIV Listings at 20 U.S.C. Part 404, Subpart P, Appendix 1, §14.00 (in notebook or on web ). Be sure to read the introductory materials and the entire 14.08 listing
From the Clinic Binder/CD, Social Security Forms Tab (note -- all of these items are also on our Benefits/Disability web page:
- Disability Protocols & Checklist (Ex 1,2)
- Guidelines for Medical Charts
- Medical Abbreviations and Symbols
- Medical Chart Template
- Medical Chart Examples
Monday, September 14
Journal 2 due
Tuesday, September 15 (Class to be rescheduled for another time this week)
Documents Explanation & Standby Guardianship Overview
- Jacob Whiteside interview (with Carolyn as interviewer). Try to take a look at this before your first interview.
- Review prepared documents handed out in class and be prepared to explain them to your client
- Review wills and advance directives materials as needed.
- Standby Guardianship Materials in Clinic CD/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 - Gordon Lipscomb presentation to AIDS Law Class - What Law Students Should Know about HIV (mp4).
Lipscomb Presentation Part 1
Lipscomb Presentation Part 2
Lipscomb slides
Friday, September 18 - Tentative
Road Trip to Greensboro
Details TBA
Tuesday, September 22
Disability II - Overview & Mechanics, Electronic File, Steps 4 & 5; Case Rounds
- Social Security Quiz - Turn in by Tuesday, noon
- Raleigh News & Observer Series on Social Security Disability. Please read Parts 1, 2, and 3 (published June 1, 3, 5, 2003). Yes, this is 6 years old, but the problems noted have not been solved. This provides a detailed picture of the disability process, delays, and quality of disability assessment.
- From the Clinic Binder/CD -- Browse Social Security Forms,including ==>
- Vocational Materials in Binder at pp. 179-210 -- especially pp. 197-200 -- handy vocational terms
- Review Social Security Protocols
Monday, September 28
Journal 3 due
Tuesday, September 29
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. Please bring to class copies of any disability listings you believe might apply to the client's case.
Readings:
- Client disability file - available in clinic office
- Review Social Security disability listings and consider possible theories for the client's case (full listings are available in hard copy in the office, in the red notebook with the disability materials and on the web). Please bring a copy of the relevant listings or your laptop to class.
Tuesday, October 6
Health care access discussion
Teams will present on their topics.
Week of October 12: Fall Break
Monday, October 26
Journal 4 due
Tuesday, October 27
Health Care access discussion, part 2
Friday, October 30
Road trip to Hickory
Friday, November 6
Return trips to Greensboro and Fayetteville
Monday, November 9
Journal 5 due
Monday, November 23
Journal 6 due
Final Class -- Date TBA
Lunch provided
Wrap up, course evaluations and your feedback about the clinic
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
Before the Exit Interview, turn in:
- Updated Skills Inventory
- Final Journal
- Case Check-out forms
- Final Check-out form
- Final time
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