Casper College News
CONGRATULATIONS TO MARY KUBICHEK AND CRAIG SILVA!!
On September 17, 2009 the Wyoming State Bar awarded Mary Kubichek, the Director of the Casper College Paralegal Program, and Craig Silva, a partner at Williams, Porter, Day & Neville, the Wyoming State Bar Pro Bono Volunteer Award for the Casper College Legal Services program. CCLS pairs Casper College paralegal students and graduates with pro bono attorneys to assist clients with civil legal matters. There is not a financial needs requirement. This is the only program in the country that is paralegal based and provides work product to clients. CCLS was funded for two years by Casper College Innovative Grants and is now funded by a line item of $5,000.00 which pays for the legal malpractice insurance and a paralegal work study position.
This program was also honored by the National Council of Instructional Administrators in May 2009, for Exemplary Initiative for Responding to Community Needs. Laura DuQuette, the paralegal for CCLS won the Outstanding Services Learning Award at Casper College in May 2009. The CCLS program has also been recognized by the American Association for Paralegal Educators and the National Institute for State and Organizational Development.
CLA REVIEW COURSE
The CLA exam review course, starts Sept. 10th, 11:00-1:00. Mary is asking for graduates or others who have taken the exam to donate your CLA Review material back to the program. Call Mary Kubichek at 268-2618 to sign up or to donate your old review manual.
CASPER COLLEGE LEGAL SERVICES
In need of lawyers and paralegals to help with the legal services program. They need a lawyer and his/her paralegal to supervise a student paralegal. The program will take 10 clients in September and 10 clients in January. Please contact Mary Kubichek at 577-0720 or 268-2618.