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38 J. Legal Educ. 369 (1988)
Lawyering and Public Policy

handle is hein.journals/jled38 and id is 381 raw text is: Lawyering and Public Policy Harold A. McDougall In current law school usage, a program that teaches lawyering uses clinical teaching methods to prepare students for law practice and insure their appreciation of the lawyer's role in society. The Clinical Program in Law and Public Policy at the Catholic University of America (LPP program) is an experiment that combines lawyering educational techniques, clinical externships, and academic study of the role of law in the formation of public policy in the nation's capital.' The LPP program places equal emphasis on the role of the public policy lawyer at work and on the role of public law in society at large. I. Background A. Program Overview Students in LPP examine the interaction of judicial, legislative, and regulatory activity as law and policy are made in Washington, D.C. Participants study the law and public-policy process in classrooms, semi- nars, tutorials, and field externships.2 The goals of the program are to expose law students to the actual practice of public law, to enable them to assume and discharge the responsibilities of public lawyering tasks, and to encourage them to generalize appropriately about the practice of public- policy law3 and the role of the public-policy lawyer. Harold A. McDougall is Associate Professor of Law and Director, Clinical Program in Law and Public Policy, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America. The author owes inspiration for the lawyering model to Howard Lesnick and Jack Himmelstein, and other former colleagues at CUNY Law School, and for the LPP concept to Bill Kaplin and the Catholic Law School Task Force on a Clinical program in Law and Public Policy. He also wishes to thank Leroy Clark, Robert Condlin, Bill Kaplin, Lisa Lerman, Phillip Schrag, and Leah Wortham for useful criticism and comments. 1. The LPP Program differs from most current models of lawyering education in that students are prepared for lawyering in legislative and administrative forums as well as judicial. 2. The program also shares its insights with a larger audience by sponsoring public forums each semester on current topics in public-policy law. The LPP forums are designed to introduce the program to first-year students, to provide the law school community with commentary on current topics in public policy, and to provide a meeting ground for LPP attorney-supervisors, law school students, and law faculty. 3. Public policy law includes law in government service and in public-interest practice. Public interest practice has been defined as providing legal services at a substantially reduced or no fee in the areas of poverty law, civil rights law, representation of charitable organizations, and efforts toward improving the justice system. ABA Special Committee on Public Interest Practice, recommendations (August, 1975), 101 Annual Report of ABA 935, 935-36 (1976).

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