Harrison County teachers whose classes are involved in LAWS attended a three-hour professional development session on January 21 at the Harrison County Courthouse. Teachers were provided with notebooks of materials to use in their classrooms, including suggested activities and LAWS handbooks for each student. Volunteer attorneys have been visiting the classrooms of the students participating in LAWS to review the cases the students will hear. After the justices rule in the cases, the students will receive copies of the opinions. The LAWS project is a partnership between the court system, the bar association, the schools, and the community.
All partners work toward one goal - educating students.
The support that LAWS has received from our partners in Harrison County has been outstanding. In 1998, the Supreme Court held the first LAWS in Beckley for 445 Raleigh County students. The Supreme Court is making LAWS an event each year in a different West Virginia community.