This workshop is focused on identifying meaningful outcomes in transactional law clinics. The audience is transactional clinicians broadly, though litigation, policy-focused, legislative, and other clinicians may have significant expertise to offer through participation. The subject matter seeks to identify and explore particular social, economic, and racial outcomes by which to assess the effectiveness of transactional clinics.
The format for the session includes the following:
(1) Presentations by invited panelists about efforts that they have used in their own transactional clinics to assess outcomes tracking a variety of metrics, including entities formed, tax exemption determinations achieved, jobs created, and more. In addition, challenging to assess outcomes, such as those related to racial justice as addressed, including through the Racial Justice Listening Project conducted by the Community Economic Development Clinic at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
(2) Opportunities for participating clinicians to discuss their own efforts to track outcomes, as well as develop their own metrics based on a guided exercise.
Participants will walk away from the workshop having (a) reflected on their own efforts to assess outcomes in their transactional clinic, and (b) actual tools and metrics to track going forward as a way to tell the stories of both students in their clinics and the impact they are making, as well as the stories of their clients in accessing social, economic, and racial justice.