Tag: standardized clients

  • Osgoode Sim Client Project

    We’ve finished our Simulated Client (SC) project at Osgoode Hall Law School, which was around three months in the planning. Further and much more detailed analysis later, but this is a quick post for now to summarise what we did.

  • The gentle rebuke

    Yesterday I presented to faculty and students at Osgoode on the Simulated Client Initiative (SCI).  Slides at the usual place, at the Slides tab above and on Slideshare.  Lots of fascinating discussion afterwards.  To demonstrate the eight global criteria we developed at Strathclyde, and how they were used with SCs, I took the second criterion…

  • Experiential learning & simulated clients

      Just finished reading a fine report on experiential learning, with simulated clients at the core of the analysis.  The report is published by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), as part of its legal education initiative, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, and is entitled Ahead of the Curve: Turning Law Students…

  • Hong Kong U Faculty of Law: virtual & f2f sims

    I’m in Hong Kong U Faculty of Law, on an exchange scheme with Wilson Chow of the Law Faculty, funded by HKU Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme.  Wilson has already visited the UK, and conducted a survey of students using SIMPLE at Strathclyde, Northumbria and Glamorgan.  He presented his results at the BILETA conference, and  will…

  • Standardized Clients @ Northumbria University Law School

    Karen Barton and I were at Northumbria U Law School this week, training Standardized Clients (SCs), at the invitation of Jonny Hall, Acting Associate Dean.  We had a brilliant time – what a great bunch of SCs – attentive, witty, fast learners.  Northumbria U. is the first English university to adopt the method – why…