The intern program has both practice and seminar components. Interns work as partners with attorneys on their cases and related projects. Assignments include drafting complaints, answers and motions, responding to answers and motions, drafting trial and appellate court briefs, preparing discovery requests and responses, preparing memoranda on case-related issues, analyzing legislative proposals, attending negotiations, settlement meetings and court hearings, and participating in moot courts. Interns work with assistant attorneys general and agency attorneys and make contact with client agency officials, citizens, adversaries, legislators and other attorneys. The seminar includes presentations and discussions on trial and appellate advocacy, discovery, legislation and lobbying, and administrative law.
Interns enroll for seven credits and commit twenty-one hours per week to the program.
Grading is pass-fail. Students interested in participating in the program in the Spring 1988 semester should submit a resume , transcript and letter of interest to Debe Martin , by mail at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Post Office Box 7857, Madison WI 53707-7857, or in person at 123 West Washington Avenue on the 6th floor. All application materials must be received at DOJ no later than Monday, October 27 Professor Arlen Christenson and Assistant Attorneys General JoAnne Kloppenburg and Michael Losse supervise the Clinical Program.