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46 J.L. & Educ. 313 (2017)
In the Trenches of Legal Academia: Recognizing and Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Law Students Who Have Served in the Nation's Armed Forces

handle is hein.journals/jle46 and id is 328 raw text is: In the Trenches of Legal Academia: Recognizing and Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Law Students Who Have Served in the Nation's Armed Forces Evan R. Seamone, LL.M., J.D., M.P.P.* For student veterans, school is a very different kind of battlefield and it requires an entirely different skill set and mental map. I. INTRODUCTION In the aftermath of nearly sixteen years of sustained military operations abroad, the legal system has been forced to respond to the residue of combat trauma, especially in the family' and criminal * Clinic Attorney, Veterans Legal Clinic of the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. Mr. Seamone currently serves in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Senior Defense Counsel with twelve years' active duty experience prosecuting and defending a wide range of military cases involving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and other invisible wounds of war. He has developed training to assist attorneys in identifying and mitigating the traumatic content in cases with disturbing facts and has introduced a system to help attorneys effectively counsel combat traumatized clients. As a law professor, he developed and taught an Academic Success curriculum for at-risk law students, including combat veterans. The author appreciates the insightful comments and suggestions from Kate Richardson and Professor Kristine Huskey and extends tremendous thanks to W. Bradley Evans III and Cameron Fields for their exceptional research assistance in the development of this Article. A scholarship grant from Mississippi College funded this article. The author is most grateful for this grant. Mr. Seamone can be reached at eseamone@law.harvard.edu. 1. Alison Lighthall, Ten Things You Should Know About Today's Student Veteran, THOUGHT & ACTION: THE NEA HIGHER EDUC. J., Fall 2012, at 80, 85. 2. For example, retired New York Justice Janice Rosa described the compelling needs that motivated her to develop a specialized docket for military families in her Buffalo, New York family court: Where at one time a judge might preside rarely or occasionally over a civil case involving active or retired military, since 9/11 and nonstop military fronts those numbers have increased like a rising tide, silently but inexorably. Much like the slowing heating

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