Purpose
The Lawyering in Spanish strives to meet the following goals:
- Educate lawyers who command the laws, legal terminology, language and culture of other nations
- Train students to be effective, competent and ethical practitioners who can handle client matters in intercultural and cross-linguistic situations
- Incorporate a second language into an in-depth analysis of the ethical dilemmas and moral responsibilities of global lawyers
- Prepare law students for practicing law in a trans-national market
Through its goals, the Lawyering In Spanish Program provides the following benefits:
- Prepares students to work with clients from different backgrounds, from monolingual immigrants to multi-national corporations and foreign governments
- Allows students to position themselves as experts in the law, language and culture of other countries
- Provides students with hands-on experience doing legal work in Spanish
- Assists students in building relations with a wide variety of Spanish-speaking professionals, including practicing attorneys, business executives, consulate representatives and members of the local and national Latino communities