Law School Teaching
Lawrence Reed McDonough
Attorney at Law
Introduction |
Created and taught courses at all of the law schools in Minnesota since 1989 as a visiting and adjunct professor in both clinical, survey and doctrinal courses See also Presentations and Publications |
1997 to Present |
Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School Created and continue to teach co-teach the Poverty Law Course, a two-semester series in which students learn about interviewing and advice on federal and state laws affecting the rights and obligations of low-income persons, including housing, property, contract, tort, administrative, government benefits, elder, consumer, juvenile, migrant, immigration, education, and disabilities law; created and maintain the class website, http://www.povertylaw.homestead.com Created and taught the Housing Law Clinic from 1997 until 2013, in which students and student directors learned housing law and client representation skills through course work on housing law and trial practice, drafting, motion and trial practice simulations, and client representation, http://www.minnhousingclinic.homestead.com |
2000 to Present |
Member, Law School Initiatives Subcommittee of the Access to Justice Committee (formerly Legal Assistance to the Disadvantaged Committee) of the Minnesota State Bar Association, which created the Law School Public Service Program |
2016 to 2017 |
Guest Speaker in Administrative Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law |
2010 to 2011 |
Visiting Clinical Professor of Law, Hamline University School of Law Took sabbatical from the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis to reorganize and teach the Trial Practice Clinic, in which students and student directors learned housing law and client representation skills through course work on housing law and trial practice, trial practice simulations, and client representation, http://hamlinetpc.homestead.com/ Also created the Landlord and Tenant Law Course, in which students researched property, contract and tort law affecting landlord and tenants, wrote advice letters and pleadings, presented motion arguments; one of the only law courses in the county working with mentors in 17 states, http://landlordtenantlaw.homestead.com |
2005 to 2006 |
Adjunct Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law Taught Evidence, created and maintained the class website, http://evidencewmitchell.homestead.com |
2003 to 2004 |
Supervisor of student authors for Legal Scholarship for Equal Justice, a project of all of the law schools in Minnesota and the Minnesota Justice Foundation |
2002 |
Adjunct Professor of Law and Affiliated faculty with the Interdisciplinary Clinic, University of St. Thomas School of Law Taught in the areas of housing, consumer, trial practice, and consulting with student attorneys |
1996 to 1997 |
Visiting Clinical Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School of Law Took sabbatical from the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis to teach law students on poverty law representation in the Civil Practice Clinic; created the first free-standing housing law clinic in Minnesota, in which students and student directors learned housing law and client representation skills through course work on housing law and trial practice, trial practice simulations, and client representation, http://www.minnhousingclinic.homestead.com |
1988 to 1990 |
Adjunct Professor of Law, Legal Writing, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota |
1986 to 1988 |
Adjunct Professor of Law, Skills Courses, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota |