{"id":790,"date":"2013-02-27T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/?p=790"},"modified":"2013-02-27T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T21:10:17","slug":"hls-grad-praises-clinical-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/2013\/02\/27\/hls-grad-praises-clinical-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"HLS Grad Praises Clinical Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p title=\"Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic\"><em>Recent HLS graduate Nick McDaniel reflects on the value of his experience at the Emmett Environmental Law &amp; Policy Clinic.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi Dean Minow,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Nick McDaniel, and I\u2019m a 2011 HLS graduate and a current Environmental Law Fellow at the Environmental Law and Policy Center.\u00a0 I wanted to drop you a quick note to say hello, and also to sing the praises of the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.\u00a0 The clinic was an important part of my time in law school, and it provided me amazing experience.\u00a0 Now that I\u2019m practicing and litigating significant energy and environmental cases in my fellowship, I realize even more how important that experience was in preparing me for what I\u2019m doing now.<\/p>\n<p>I chose the ELPC fellowship after my clerkship in part because I knew that I would get extensive litigation experience right away, and that has proven to be the case \u2013 I\u2019ve performed discovery, drafted and argued pretrial motions, and deposed and cross-examined utility expert witnesses in important renewable energy and energy efficiency cases.\u00a0 I feel like I\u2019ve been very prepared for this responsibility and autonomy because of my 3-4 semesters with the clinic (one semester was an externship with DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division).\u00a0 I spent most of my time on our representation of small renewable energy contractors challenging electrical licensure requirements for solar photovoltaic projects \u2013 interacting with clients, performing discovery, and drafting motions and briefs.\u00a0 After graduation and before starting into the serious bar-studying, I had the amazing experience of drafting and arguing our opposition to the Massachusetts AG\u2019s motion to dismiss in our declaratory judgment action in Superior Court.\u00a0 (I\u2019ve stayed up-to-date to know that we won both our opposition motion and ultimately summary judgment).\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine that all clinic experiences include opportunities like these.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy and Shaun do an amazing job, and both have continued to serve as mentors to me as I\u2019m beginning my career.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been invaluable resources for me in giving advice and support in my various job searches and in my practice.\u00a0 Anyway, I\u2019m sorry for this being a longer note than I planned to write, but I thought you might appreciate hearing about one alumn\u2019s great clinic experience.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nNick<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent HLS graduate Nick McDaniel reflects on the value of his experience at the Emmett Environmental Law &amp; Policy Clinic&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elp-news-events","category-news","tag-mcdaniel","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}