1. Increasing access to justice:
exploring a new lawyering paradigm through clinical legal education and reflective practice
Chris Casey (La Trobe University) Dr. Liz Curran (Australian National Uni)
Michele Leering (Queen’s University [PhD candidate]} Prof. Mary Anne Noone (La Trobe Uni)

2. Workshop agenda Context: The imperative for new models
Different paradigms: Interactive activity
Approaches to introducing different concepts of lawyering in clinic settings
Other approaches: What do you do?
Wrap-up & Resource Materials

3. The context Australia Canada
Royal Commission into Family Violence (2016)
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (ongoing)
Access to Justice Arrangements: Productivity Commission (2014)
Managing Justice: A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System (2000)
Canada
Carnegie Report (2007)
CBA: Equal Justice (2013)
National Action Committee: Roadmap for Change (2013)
CBA Legal Futures Initiative: Futures—Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada (2014)
Truth & Reconciliation Commission: Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future (2015)

4. Australia

5. canada

7. Paradigms of Lawyering
Adversarial advocate
Traditional conception of zealous, client focused lawyering
Responsible lawyering
Officer of Court approach that tempers duty to client with responsibilities of administration of justice
Moral activism
Concerned with justice and promotion of substantive justice
Ethics of care
Relational lawyering that focuses on preserving relationships and avoiding harm
Parker & Evans (2014) Inside Lawyers Ethics
See also Daicoff (2005) Law as a Healing Profession: The “Comprehensive Law Movement”

10. Interactive Activity
Different ‘descriptors’ for lawyering have been distributed to workshop participants
Discuss your understanding of the term with a partner (or invent one!)
Introduce yourself, and report back in one or two sentences what this type of lawyering might mean/contribute.

11. Engaging Queen’s Law Externs

12. Examples of engaging students with paradigms of lawyering
ANU – Guided Professional Journal
La Trobe/Bendigo - student insights
La Trobe - Public Interest Law supervision sessions

13. Other examples
Share examples of ways that you introduce or might introduce alternative paradigms of lawyering to students.
What has worked well?
What has been challenging?
What next steps might you recommend or take?
Brief reporting back to follow….

14. What are key themes for ideas from the workshop?
Reflective practice
What are key themes for ideas from the workshop?

15. For more information See the Reading List provided +
Chris Casey
Dr. Liz Curran
Mary Anne Noone
Michele M. Leering