Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic: Impacting Lives Inside and Outside the Courtroom

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University of Wyoming College of Law

Students in the Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic have been hard at work throughout the academic year, navigating the daily grind. While the perception that many cases are not always glamorous, for the people whose lives they are affecting, they are everything. Students in the clinic have thrived under the high stakes, high-pressure issues for their clients, and proven that they can hold their own both inside and outside the courtroom.

Some stand out student performances in the clinic have covered bench trials, settlements, and everything in-between.

In September of 2019, third-year law student Heidi Reeves-Messner, who serves the student director of the clinic, tackled two bench trials back to back, and achieved positive verdicts in both cases.

The first trial was argued in the District Court of Wyoming for the First Judicial District in front of the Honorable Catherine Rogers (J.D. ’97). Reeves-Messner argued in a Guardian…

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