by William Statsky, Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School and Philip Lang, California Rural Legal Assistance
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One: Developing a Program Introduction to the Legal Paraprofessional Roles for the Legal Paraprofessional · Interviewer · Problem Refiner · Interpreter · Investigator · Negotiator · Advocate · Legal Researcher · Librarian · Drafter · Server · Clerk · Social Worker · Community Teacher · Community Organizer How to Use This Manual: Identification of Needs Models in the Use of Legal Paraprofessionals Recruitment and Program Operation · Criteria for Selecting Trainees · Methods of Recruitment · The Selection Process Ethics and Need · Ethics and the Lay Assistant · Ethics and the Lay Advocate The Funding Game · Costs Involved · Public Funds · Private Funding · Proposal Writing Part Two: Training Defining Your Training Program · The Dimensions of Training · The Forms of Training · The Types of Training Basic Concepts and Needs of Training · Introduction · What is Training? · Who if the Trainer?? · Assumptions of legal Paraprofessional Training · “Teach Me the Law!” · The Basic Needs of a Training Program: Finances, Staff, Time, Facilities, Equipment, Attitude · Defining Objectives – Deriving Goals · The Training Process and the Need for Structure Curriculum Design and Training Methods · Introduction: Key Questions for Trainers · The Learning Process: Major Principles Training Methods · The Balanced Workshop Approach to Training · Written Materials, manuals, Checklists · Role Play · Audiotape and Videotape · Guest Speakers · Fieldwork Practicum · Audio-Visual Materials · Evaluation Supervision and Training Guide for Evaluation of Legal Paraprofessional Staff · Job Assignment · Case Handling · Administrative Aspects of Practice · Community Relations · Professional Development · Summary Part Three: Model Training Materials Understanding Our Legal System · Three Levels of Government · Three Basic Traits of Human Activity: Make a Law, Enforce a Law, Interpret a Law · The Legislative Branch · The Executive Branch · The Judiciary Conflicting Rights and interests · Private Rights vs. Societal Interest · Private Rights vs. Individual Interest · Private Rights vs. Private Rights Interviewing · The Art of Interviewing · Understanding Human Nature · The Relationship Between Interviewer and Interviewee · The Interviewer’s Attitudes · Purposes of interviewing · How to Interview · Essential Conditions of Good Interviewing Bureaucracy · What is Bureaucracy? · How to Advocate with Bureaucracies An advocate’s Outline for Fair Hearings Group Advocacy Sample Flow Charts, Checklists, and Operationalizing Materials Appendix List of Events and Programs in the Country · Legal Service Programs · Committees · Non-College Training Institutions · On-the-Job Training Programs · Conferences · Law Schools · Colleges · Government Agencies (Non-OEO) · Private Attorneys and Firms · Miscellaneous · Surveys · Selective Program/Event Description Annotated Bibliography on Legal paraprofessionals · Training materials · Basic Issues in the Use of Legal Praraprofessionals · Jobs and careers · Legal Paraprofessionals and Lawyers · Advocacy and Social Workers · Ethics and unauthorized Practice · Roles for lay Assistants · Roles for Lay Advocates · Recruitment, Training, and Placement · Training Techniques and Supervision · Dealing with Bureaucracy · Broad Historical, Sociological and program Perspectives |
