Health Justice Clinic student attorneys Donell Gibson '18 and Eric Weyand '18 strategize about a client representation.
Health Justice Law & Policy Clinic
Learn to lawyer while serving low-income people facing cancer, changing the way health care is delivered, and advocating for population health.
The HJC is the legal partner in LegalCare at Roswell Park, a medical-legal partnership serving patients of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center who otherwise would not have access to a lawyer.
In addition to functioning as the lead lawyers in a variety of civil legal matters, HJC student attorneys work on the "social determinants of health" - everything that contributes to health status that isn't genetics or biology - in both individual representations and projects aimed at health-enhancing systems change.
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516 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2167
law-clinic@buffalo.edu
Clinic student attorneys Katherine McCarley '20 and Charles Terranova '20 celebrate in the LegalCare office after executing their first power of attorney for a Roswell Park client.
HJC practice is the practice of law, in all its messiness, unpredictability, challenge, and reward. HJC student-attorneys develop skills transferrable to virtually any legal practice setting, including:
- How to advocate for individuals both informally and in negotiations, courtroom, and/or administrative settings;
- How to build client-centered attorney-client relationships;
- How to interview and counsel effectively;
- How to work with and within the context of a large corporation;
- How to collaborate with other professionals to advance client goals and improve client outcomes;
- How to communicate with non-lawyers about legal issues and rights;
- How to conceptualize and advocate for systems change based on an understanding of how particular laws, regulations and/or policies affect individual lives; and
- How to work with community partners to advance positive change.