Housing and Employment Litigation Clinic

In the Housing and Employment Litigation Clinic, UND law students represent plaintiffs in a wide variety of federal and state court cases and administrative proceedings. Live client representation is combined with classroom seminars, in-class case rounds and presentations, weekly case team meetings, and group and individual simulations, which prepare Clinic students to engage in the substantive and procedural aspects of litigation practice in the housing and employment areas.

In the employment context, students may represent clients who are seeking unemployment or workers’ compensation benefits, who have been discriminated against or harassed in the workplace, or who are seeking recourse for wrongful termination.

In the housing setting, students work generally in cases relating to the protection of tenant’s rights, including wrongful eviction claims, discrimination complaints, and improper withholding of security deposits.

Working under the supervision of Clinic faculty, students maintain responsibility for all aspects of the cases and matters to which they are assigned, from initial client screening through to final case resolution. Students gain valuable, hand-on experience in navigating the professional and practical aspects of litigation through:

• regularly interacting with clients, the court, and opposing counsel;


• drafting pleadings, discovery, motions, memoranda, correspondence, and agreements;


• appearing at scheduling conferences, taking and defending depositions, interviewing and preparing witnesses, conducting settlement negotiations and mediations; and


• arguing motions and participating in hearings, trials, and appeals.

For more information about the University of North Dakota School of Law’s Housing and Employment Litigation Clinic, please contact

Assistant Professor Margaret Moore Jackson or
Visiting Assistant Professor Daniel Schaffzin
at (701) 777-2932.