Accepting and Pursuing a Case Clinic participants are given a large degree of freedom to choose which cases they would like to undertake, subject to the approval of their section supervisors. After accepting a case, students contact their new client and arrange a meeting to discuss the case and form an initial plan. In some instances, a client can be assisted based on this initial meeting and a second meeting during which students present a written opinion to the client, whereas other cases last longer, and cannot be completed within the year-long clinic program. In such instances, the clinic passes these cases on to the next generation of participants. The Classroom Element Students' work is supported by weekly seminars within their individual sections, in which students discuss compelling issues arising from their cases and share strategies and ideas with each other and with their supervisors.
Seminars perform case simulations, including moot court hearings and client interviews.
During such seminars students also are trained in lawyering skills and ethics by their faculty supervisors and practitioners. These seminars are also an opportunity to invite guest lecturers. Students have discussed law and legal ethics with Mr. Ryszard Razny, President of the Krakow Bar Association. Professor Richard Warner, from Chicago-Kent Law School, spoke on the use of technology in American law schools. Most recently, Mr. Tomasz Gellert, head specialist on legal defence of refugees in the Polish Ombudsman's office, spoke to our students on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.