FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History
Abstract
Law school clinics play an increasingly important role in training future lawyers and providing legal assistance to traditionally under-represented individuals and groups. In addition to facing the legal issues present in any law practice, law clinic students and faculty often confront ethical issues that lawyers representing poor and unpopular clients sometimes face - outside interference in case and client selection. This article explores the ethical considerations raised by interference in law school clinic case and client selection and limitations on the means of representation lawyers may employ in representing their clients. The article\u27s analysis provides a useful framework for responding to interference with not just law school clinics, but also with legal services laywers and other attorneys representing poor or unpopular clients and causes
