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1. Designing The Model Law Firm
UW Clinical Law Program

2. UW Clinic Law Program
 8 onsite clinics
 Child and Youth Advocacy, Environmental,
Innocence Project, Mediation, Tax, Technology
Law, Tribal Court, Unemployment
 Approximately 100 students
 10 faculty members
 4 support staff

3. William H. Gates Hall

4. Condon Hall

5. Design Challenges
 Maintain confidentiality of client files
 Easy access by Clinic students to clinic space
 Access by public to clinics
 Make clinical faculty accessible to clinic
students
 Make clinical faculty accessible to non-clinic
students
 Space allocation amongst the clinics
 Structural limitations

7. Solutions and Compromises
 Clinics located on Second Floor
 Clear signage is key
 Clinical faculty placed on public corridor next
to private clinical space
 Ready access to clinical space via card-
reader
 Clinic space allocated based upon
 Number of students
 Time spent in clinic space
 Nature of work

11. Issues That Still Remain
 Isolation of clinical faculty from the rest of the
faculty
 Too accessible to our students?
 Growth in number and size of clinics
 Non-clinical faculty and staff access to clinic
conference rooms and facilities
 Clinics are the first place public encounters
 Conflicts and potential conflicts with “law firm”
model
 Technology challenges

12. Technology
 Card readers
 Video cameras and recorders
 Amicus case tracking system
 Computer network
 Law School wireless network
 Student laptops
 Telephone system