AIDS Clinic Readings

Fall 2009 -- Tentative

First Class is Tuesday, August 25. Attendance is mandatory. Readings will be placed in your mail folder before class.

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.

Mark Your Calendar:

Clinic Intensive: Friday, August 25, 10:00 -? . This session is mandatory (Date to be confirmed)

Road Trips (Optional)

• 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:

Readings

Unless otherwise specified, readings are from the Clinic Binder

Journal Requirement

• 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
• 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)
• Wills article, Forms, 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
• Wettach, “The Determination of Disability within the Social Security System;
  • In class: SSA Definition of Disability; Proof of Disability)

Friday, September 4,Times TBA:

Duke Clinics Intensive Training

• AM session:
  Ethics, Access to Justice
• PM session:
  Standby Guardianship training
  Interviewing simulations - Documents Clients (Jacob Whiteside & Sheila Jones)

Assignments:

• Review Office Manual and Office Forms
• Standby Guardianship Quiz
• Optional: Background reading on Family Law
• Read: Cochran, DiPippa & Peters, The Counselor-at-Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counselling, Chapters 3-4.
• Interview fact patterns (handed out in class)

Week of September 7

Simulated Standby Guardianship 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

Medical Aspects of Disability, AIDS 101

• Advance Directives Quiz (due by noon Tuesday)
• Social Security Forms Tab:
  
  • Disability Protocols & Checklist (Ex 1, 2)
  • Guidelines for Medical Charts (in clinic binder, Social Security forms)
  • Medical Abbreviations and Symbols
  • Medical Chart Template
  • Medical Chart Examples
  • 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

Monday, September 14

Journal 2 due

Tuesday, September 15

Documents Explanation & Case Rounds

• 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 tabs as needed.
  

Friday, September 18 ?

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
• USA Today Series on Disability Delays, July 29, 2007, This presents a national picture of delays and the current response
• Raleigh News & Observer Series on Social Security Disability. Please read Parts 1, 2, and 3 (published June 1, 3, 5, 2003). This provides a more detailed picture of the disability process, delays, and quality of disability assessment. It's a little old now, but nothing has changed significantly since this writing.
• Social Security Forms
• 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

Confidentiality and Discrimination

• Overview of HIV Confidentiality in North Carolina (powerpoint)
• 15 NCAC 19A .0202 (Control Measures - HIV)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. 130A-143 (Confidentiality of AIDS/HIV Status)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. 130A-25 (Criminal Sanction for Disclosure)
• Hall v. Post, 323 N.C. 259 (1988)
• Overview of HIV Discrimination - Federal and NC (powerpoint)
• N.C.G.S. 130A-148 (AIDS Testing and Anti-Discrimination Provisions)
• Medical Inquiries by employers under the Americans with Disabilities Act - Statute & Regulations

Week of October 12: Fall Break

Tuesday, October 20

Case Rounds

Monday, October 26

Journal 4 due

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:

Schedule Exit Interview when you have finished all client work
Turn in:

Updated Skills Inventory
Final Journal
Case Check-out forms
Final Check-out form
Final time

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