WUSTL Course Listings Login with WUSTL Key
Search Results: Help Display: Open + Closed     Just Open     Just Closed View: Regular     Condensed     Expanded
1 course found.
LAW SCHOOL (W74)  (Dept. Info)Law  (Policies)SP2025
W74 LAW 729Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (Narkiewicz)Var. Units (max = 8.0)
Description:Open to 3L and 2L J.D. students. The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) provides students with a client forward opportunity to develop real-life lawyering skills working as student attorneys under faculty supervision on tax-related legal issues. Students will represent low-income taxpayers in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including possible appearances before the Tax Court. A student's primary experience will be to perform the tasks of advising and advocating on behalf of low-income taxpayer clients. Students will also be exposed to the legal and ethical problems that attorneys face in practice. In this clinic, students can expect to engage in: problem solving; legal analysis and reasoning; legal research; factual investigation; client interviewing and counseling; oral and written communication; negotiation; litigation; organization and management of legal work; and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas. In addition to individual supervision meetings, students must attend a weekly seminar. Students are required to have either taken or be simultaneously taking Federal Income Tax. This is a clinic that involves extensive client interaction. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other law school courses. Students will not be allowed to drop any law clinic without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] Students will earn 6 credits for the clinic, although a student may earn up to 8 credits with permission of the professor depending on workload. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. The clinic seminar will be held on Wednesdays from 10:00 am - 11:52 am. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98) and F (2.50). [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 2 hours of BCCCR instruction.]
Attributes:Law: BCCCR, CLN EXT, COIFGR, EXP, GRD TAX, JDGRTX, LCU
Instruction Type:Internship/Practicum Grade Options:P Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:None / History
Label

Home/Ident

A course may be either a “Home” course or an “Ident” course.

A “Home” course is a course that is created, maintained and “owned” by one academic department (aka the “Home” department). The “Home” department is primarily responsible for the decision making and logistical support for the course and instructor.

An “Ident” course is the exact same course as the “Home” (i.e. same instructor, same class time, etc), but is simply being offered to students through another department for purposes of registering under a different department and course number.

Students should, whenever possible, register for their courses under the department number toward which they intend to count the course. For example, an AFAS major should register for the course "Africa: Peoples and Cultures" under its Ident number, L90 306B, whereas an Anthropology major should register for the same course under its Home number, L48 306B.

Grade Options
C=Credit (letter grade)
P=Pass/Fail
A=Audit
U=Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
S=Special Audit
Q=ME Q (Medical School)

Please note: not all grade options assigned to a course are available to all students, based on prime school and/or division. Please contact the student support services area in your school or program with questions.