Registration Information
Legal Aid Clinic Registration Procedure
1. For purposes of this policy, clinical courses include Legal Aid I & Ethics, Legal Aid II, Poverty Law Topics, and Legal Aid Co-Curricular.
2. Registration in Legal Aid I & Ethics will be accomplished by a modified lottery that will be conducted as follows:
a. Students wishing to enroll in the Legal Aid I & Ethics must complete an online application form that will be identified by the student’s exam number. Students must submit a separate application form for each section of Legal Aid I & Ethics for which they wish to be considered and must rank order the sections for which they have applied. A student may not submit more than one application per section. If a student is chosen for more than one section, the student will be placed in the highest-ranked section.
b. The Clinic will discard an application under the following circumstances:
1. It is not complete or is deemed otherwise deficient.
2. The student has submitted more than one application for the same section. In such a case, that student will be deemed ineligible to enroll in Legal Aid I & Ethics and all of his or her applications will be discarded.
3. The student has included incorrect information such as misrepresenting his or her class year.
c. The remaining applications will be subjected to a random lottery to fill open spots in Legal Aid I & Ethics and to create a numbered waiting list for each section.
d. Students who have been chosen for the class or for the waiting list will be individually notified by e-mail before the class registration day. Students not chosen for the class or the waiting list will NOT be notified individually.
3. Consistent with the Indiana student practice rule, which requires students to have completed three semesters of legal studies before obtaining a student practice certification, second year students are limited to registering for spring semester clinical courses.
4. No more than two second-year students may register for any section of Legal Aid I & Ethics.
5. No student may register for two clinical courses in the same semester.
6. Priority in registration will be given to students who have previously taken fewer than eight credits in clinical courses.
7. Because of the possibility of conflicts of interest, a student who has registered for a clinical course may not simultaneously enroll in any externship or work in any other law office unless the student receives the express permission of the clinical professor well in advance of the first day of classes.
8. No waivers will be granted to allow a student to register for a non-clinical class whose schedule overlaps in any respect with Legal Aid I & Ethics.
9. The Clinic has a binding drop/add policy for Legal Aid I & Ethics to prevent drops during the first week of classes, when positions are difficult to fill. A student who drops after 9:00 am on the first day of classes will be given a grade of “F” for the course unless the student’s failure to participate and to timely drop the course is excused by the Office of Student Services for good cause shown. Good cause may include such things as serious illness or sudden changes in family circumstances. Good cause does NOT include a student’s desire to take another course or a conflict with outside employment or activities.
