Credits: 4

NFCEJ serves 16 north Florida counties and provides legal services to address housing and consumer problems that affect large numbers of low-income persons. Students will receive preliminary training about the particular project they will be working on (e.g., eviction, foreclosure, affordable housing preservation and development, consumer protection, predatory lending, employer abuse of immigrants) including procedural matters and substantive law, and then they will be assigned a caseload. In each assigned case, students will gather and review relevant information and evaluate it to determine claims and defenses. In collaboration with the supervising attorney, the student will form a case plan and process the case, which may include meeting with the client, informal fact gathering, formal discovery, additional legal research, negotiating with opposing parties, and drafting letters, motions and pleadings.