Wayne Law Experiential Learning

09/26/2024

The Winter 2025 Clinic applications are now open! This semester, we're excited to offer the following clinics:

- Appeals and Post-Conviction Advocacy Clinic
- Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic
- Business and Community Law Clinic
- Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic

Have questions about the upcoming clinic semester? Visit https://law.wayne.edu/academics/clinics or email us at [email protected].

10/08/2021

On Saturday, September 18th, student legal interns, Kiya Hickman, Austin Foos and Erins Deschamps, from our Wayne Law Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic, provided legal assistance to Detroit residents through the Community Homeless Interprofessional Program (CHIP). The CHIP program hosts monthly clinics that provides resources to local residents. The interdisciplinary team of Wayne State University Warriors includes students from the School of Medicine, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Law. Great work everyone!

09/29/2021

Thank you to all the students who attended our winter Clinic and Externship information sessions. We look forward to seeing you next semester!

09/15/2021

Wayne Law’s Business and Community Law Clinic is piloting a FREE drop-in community-building and skill-sharing group for anyone interested in social entrepreneurship. Meetings will take place virtually on the third Friday of the month from 12-1 PM, from September 2021 through April 2022. This is a great time to meet other aspiring, new, and established social entrepreneurs, leaders of community organizations, and professionals on a similar journey. To register, visit https://calendly.com/bclclinic/bcl-share.

09/10/2021

Congratulations to our Public Service Externship student, Sean Farrell, and our Business and Community Law Winter 2021 Clinic students for receiving the 2021 CLEA Outstanding Extern and Team award for Wayne Law. Every year, the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) awards each school an Outstanding Clinical Student or Team Award and Clinical Extern award. This year, Sean Farrell and our Business and Community Law Winter 2021 Clinic students were nominated to receive the award. Congratulations to them! 💚

07/20/2021

Congratulations Dan Ellman! Wayne Law’s Experiential Learning is excited to have you as our new Director of Externships!

Join us in welcoming Dan Ellman to Wayne Law as our new director of externships and as an assistant professor (clinical)! Dan has been a part-time faculty member since 2019 and has already been busy assisting with the launch of the new holistic defense partnership with the School of Social Work.

06/25/2021

💚Clinic Spotlight: Wayne Law’s Immigration Appellate Advocacy Clinic, offered for the first time in Winter 2021, serves low-income clients in cases in which an immigration judge has refused the individual’s claim for asylum, or has ordered him or her deported from the United States. Clinic students take on those cases and represent their clients before the Board of Immigration Appeals.

This past semester, Clinic students represented a client who, after living in the U.S. as a refugee for more than 20 years, was ordered deported back to Iraq, a country he last saw when he was six years old; another client who was ordered deported to Mexico after more than 30 years in the U.S. working and raising a family; and another who recently arrived in the U.S. seeking asylum from Cuba after suffering persecution there on the basis of his political opinions.

06/21/2021

3Ls Erin Deschamps and Matt Antoniou braved the summer humidity to participate in Wayne State University's Community Homeless Interprofessional Program (CHIP). A student-run free clinic, CHIP was developed as a collaboration between health professions students and faculty of pharmacy, medicine, social work, law and physical therapy. It is a community partnership with the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Detroit and provides outreach services to residents in need. Deschamps and Antoniou were on board to address legal concerns and provide appropriate referrals for individuals who visited the clinic. They were supervised on-site by Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic Director and Assistant Professor (Clinical) Kathryn M. Smolinski.

06/07/2021

Professor Rebecca Robichaud has been named the Director of Clinical Education at Wayne Law. Rebecca has taught at Wayne Law since 2012, joining the faculty and administration full-time in 2017. Robichaud previously served as the Director of Externships and oversaw the development of the newly announced Lawyering in Washington D.C. program. Robichaud is an experienced immigration attorney whose work focuses on asylum and removal defense. For more than a decade she worked with immigration clients from around the globe. In addition to her immigration work, Robichaud represented health law clients in a variety of matters including contract issues, government audits and various litigation matters.

04/09/2021

Spotlight: Exemplifying the lawyer as a servant for the public good, 3L Wayne Law student Erin Deschamps spent part of her spring break finalizing the end-of-life documents for a client who has a terminal illness. When it became clear the client could not travel to execute the documents, Erin evidenced the best of the lawyering profession by driving to the client with the Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic Staff attorney, Jane Warkentin, and Director of the Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic, Kathryn M. Smolinski. Erin’s legal work was life changing for the client and the client’s family during a tremendously difficult time. Erin is part of a family committed to honoring law as a noble profession of servants.