Clinics
Clinic Spotlight
"Through my experience in the Community Enterprise Clinic, I got a lot better at taking what people are saying and putting it into writing, making sure that it fits the legal parameters that it needs to.
"And taking the clinic the last semester was good, because I felt like it really was a culmination of everything that I had learned. It was a nice bridge between going to practice soon and law school; working in a safe environment where I had people supervising me."
Jennifer Avery '08 participated in the Community Enterprise Clinic during the second semester of her 3L year. Her projects included working with another classmate to prepare and present a legal assessment of Passage Home Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization in Raleigh, and helping a neighborhood association in Durham draft a set of bylaws. The experience, she says, was a perfect mix of her interest in nonprofit organizations and transactional law. "Ultimately I would like to do something with nonprofits or a foundation," Avery says, noting that learning to manage clients and a caseload, along with the drafting skills she developed, will be immediately useful as she begins her legal career at Thompson Knight this fall.