A joint project of law schools in the District of Columbia, Rising for Justice (RFJ) allows students to develop practical and fundamental lawyering skills while providing legal representation, assistance, and counseling to low-income clients in the District of Columbia. Students from Georgetown University Law Center participate in the RFJ clinic with students from other D.C. law schools. RFJ hosts a civil clinic for law students focused primarily on housing law.<\/p>\n
Students in the Civil Division of RFJ, otherwise known as the Housing Advocacy and Litigation Clinic, represent clients in D.C. Superior Court, primarily in the Landlord and Tenant and Branch. Law students prevent evictions, preserve affordable housing, and secure tenants\u2019 rights under federal and District law. The program works to fight the consequences of poverty, to prevent homelessness, and to combat the affordable housing crisis in the District of Columbia while teaching law students to become effective advocates.<\/p>\n
The program offers a learning environment that focuses on case preparation, courtroom experience and one-on-one working relationships with experienced instructors. Supervision and instruction emphasize litigation strategy, the skills necessary for effective lawyering, and client-centered representation.<\/p>\n
Under the supervision of clinical instructors, students are responsible for all aspects of litigation: interviewing clients and witnesses, conducting investigations, preparing pleadings, engaging in settlement negotiations, and conducting all motions hearings and trials pursuant to the Superior Court\u2019s student practice rule. Students enrolled in RFJ represent clients at hearings and conduct their casework at D.C. Superior Court\u2019s Landlord & Tenant Branch and Civil Actions Branch, located a short walk from Judiciary Square or Gallery Place Metro.<\/p>\n
There is a mandatory three day orientation each semester before the semester begins. After orientation, weekly clinic classes and simulations are held on Monday evenings. Clinic classes during the semester are held at the RFJ office, located a short walk from the Law Center at 901 4th St NW, Washington, DC 20001. If you have any questions, please contact Ayn Lee Sing<\/a>, Director of the Housing Advocacy and Litigation Clinic at aleesing@risingforjustice.org<\/span>(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview: A joint project of law schools in the District of Columbia, Rising for Justice (RFJ) allows students to develop practical and fundamental lawyering skills while providing legal representation, assistance, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":2130,"menu_order":85,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-2216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31679,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2216\/revisions\/31679"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}