Conference on Clinical Legal Education

May 18–22, 2002
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Autonomy/Client-Centered Lawyering Revisited

Peter Joy, Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Pinard, University of Maryland (Visiting at Washington University 2001-02)

Participants attending this session should consider these questions:

1. What does client-centered lawyering really mean?
2. What type(s) of lawyering do you practice, and do you practice what you teach?
3. What obstacles do you face in teaching client-attorney relationships?
4. What exercises and methodologies do you employ to overcome the obstacles you face in teaching client-attorney relationships to clinic students?
5. What questions about client-attorney relationships do you hope to answer by attending this conference?

Selected Bibliography

Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation, 85 Yale L. J. 470 (1976).

David A. Binder, Paul Bergman & Susan C. Price, Lawyers as Counselors: A Client- Centered Approach (1991).

Susan Bryant, The Five Habits: Building Cross-Cultural Competence in Lawyers, 8 Clin. L. Rev. 33 (2001).

Robert F. Cochran, Jr., John M.A. DiPippa & Martha M. Peters, The Counselor-at Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling (1999).

Clark D. Cunningham, The Lawyer as Translator, Representation as Text: Towards an Ethnography of Legal Discourse, 77 Cornell L. Rev. 1298 (1992).

Robert D. Dinerstein, Client-Centered Counseling: Reappraisal and Refinement, 32 Ariz. L. Rev. 501 (1990).

Robert D. Dinerstein, Clinical Texts and Contexts, 39 UCLA L. Rev. 697 (1992).

Ingrid V. Eagly, Community Education: Creating a New Vision of Legal Services Practice, 4 Clin. L. Rev. 433 (1998).

Stephen Ellmann, Client-Centeredness Multiplied: Individual Autonomy and Collective Mobilization in Public Interest Lawyers’ Representation of Groups, 78 Va. L. Rev. 1103 (1992).

Bill Ong Hing, Raising Personal Identification Issues of Class, Race, Sexual Orientation, Physical Disability, and Age in Lawyering Courses, 45 Stan. L. Rev. 1807 (1993).

Michelle S. Jacobs, People from the Footnotes: The Missing Element in Client-Centered Counseling, 27 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 345 (1997).

Gerald P. Lopez, Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano’s Vision of Progressive Law Practice (1992).

Gerald P. Lopez, Reconceiving Civil Rights Practice: Seven Weeks in the Life of a Rebellious Collaboration, 77 Geo. L.J. 1603 (1989).

John B. Mitchell, Narrative and Client-Centered Representation: What is a True Believer to Do When His Two Favorite Theories Collide, 6 Clin. L. Rev. 85 (1999).

Ascanio Piomelli, Appreciating Collaborative Lawyering, 6 Clinical L. Rev. 427 (2000).

Ann Shalleck, Constructions of the Client within Legal Education, 45 Stan. L. Rev. 1731 (1993).

Linda F. Smith, Interviewing Clients: A Linguistic Comparison of the “Traditional” Interview and the “Client-Centered” Interview, 1 Clin. L. Rev. 541 (1995).

Rodney Uphoff & Peter B. Wood, The Allocation of Decisionmaking Between Defense Counsel and Criminal Defendant: An Empirical Study of Attorney-Client Decisionmaking, 47 Kans. L. Rev. 1, 6 (1998).