The Legal Clinic includes students in Law under the supervision of academic staff and experts at St Petersburg University. The quality of legal assistance is ensured by a special training system, control by an individual curator, and assessment of students based on the results of the practice in the Clinic.
The Scope of the Legal Clinic
- Civil Law
- Labour Law
- Administrative Law
- Social Security Law
- Housing Law
- Civil Procedural Law
The Tasks of the Legal Clinic
- to ensure individual professional specialisation of the future lawyer
- to adapt students to the conditions and requirements of the lawyer job
- to ensure the conscious application of the norms of professional ethics in the case of inevitably arising dilemmas of various types of conflicts of interest
- to ensure an environment to start a professional career in a faster way (compared to those who believe that the employer or senior colleagues will teach early career employees how to work)