This week is the 2014 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education in Chicago.   The theme of the conference is Building Better Clinicians.   The conference is in three tracks:  Learning Theory and Pedagogy, Law School Curriculum and Reform, and Community Engagement and Mindfulness. 

Several of our writers are on the menu:

Brittany Stringfellow Otey has convened a panel, including Virgil Wiebe, Motivating Self-Care: Moving from Good Ideas to Good Practices, meeting at 2:15 on Monday (also with Margaret Drew and Lynette Parker). 

Carrie Hagan is a panelist at a concurrent session, Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?: Balancing The Interests of Clients, Courts and Community Agencies, also at 2:15 on Monday (with Stephanie Boys, Lauren Choate and Susan Woods McGraugh).

Inga Laurent is a panelist on mindfulness session, Engaging Field Placement Attorneys: Building a Community of Mindful Supervisors, at 9:00 on Tuesday (with Rebecca Rosenfeld, Sue Schechter and Cynthia Wilson).

D'lorah Hughes is competing at the same time with her concurrent session, More than Mindful in the Face of a Constitutional Crisis: The Case Student of Juvenile Life Without Parole and Post-Miller Implementation Work (with Emily Hughes, Mae Quinn, Mollie Stemper and Kimberly Thomas).

Robert Lancaster is moderating a mini-plenary on Tuesday at 10:45 on Curricular Reform – Preserving the Integrity of Experiential Learning (with Roberto Corrada, Janet Thompson Jackson and Reena Elizabeth Parambath).  

Danny and our new addition, Kendall Kerew, are leading a concurrent session Tuesday at 3:45 on Educating Money (and Other Motivators): Teaching Social Justice and Life Balance to Future For-Profit Attorneys (with Alex Scherr).

Kelly Olson and Kelly Terry are in a concurrent session on Wednesday at 2:00 on Creating, Adapting and Assessing Clinical Experiences (with Leigh Goodmark and Jaime Lee).  

Tanya Cooper is presenting a work-in-progress at 9:00 on Tuesday, Stories of Bias in American Foster Care. 

Danny Schaffzin, being very productive, is also participating in a work-in-progess then, with other co-authors of Building on Best Practices: Legal Education in a Changing World. 

Jill Engle is presenting a work-in-progress at 3:45 on Tuesday, Teenage Domestic Violence: A Study of the Problem in Central Pennsylvania and the Community and Legal Responses. 

Three of us are helping to lead working groups.  Kelly Terry is co-facilitating the working group on Externships (with Carrie Kass).   Virgil Wiebe is a co-leader of the Immigration group (with Uzoamaka Nzelibe), and I am a co-leader of the group on Community Economic Development (with Dana Malkus).