The UW Law School and the Neighborhood Law Project (NLP) were featured in a video during half-time of the Badger Big Ten men's basketball game against Penn State on January 29, 2005, and will continue to be featured during Big Ten games this month.  The NLP was chosen as an excellent example of the Wisconsin Idea and represented the University's community-based educational and service programs.

The  video shows the Law School and features NLP students working with clients in their community office on South Park Street and in the Dane County Small Claims Court. The program also includes interviews with Dean Davis and Clinical Assistant Professor Juliet Brodie, Director of NLP. Brodie and Davis speak about the importance of clinical education to the Law School .

NLP is a community-based poverty law clinic, where law students provide legal services to low-income people in the neighborhoods surrounding the law school. NLP serves hundreds of clients each year, principally in landlord-tenant, unpaid wage, and welfare matters. Students are responsible, under close supervision, for every aspect of client representation, from initial interview, through fact investigation and legal research, client counseling, negotiation, and formal court and administrative proceedings.

"It was really gratifying to be selected to represent the University," says Brodie. "The Neighborhood Law Project is very well suited to tell the story of the Law School's commitment to experience-based learning, to Law in Action, and to the justice mission of the legal profession."

The Law School spot will be rebroadcast during half-time of the basketball game on February 16 or February 27.

For more information on the Neighborhood Law Project, see http://www.law.wisc.edu/fjr/eji/neighborhood/index.htm .

Submitted by on January 10, 2005

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