Law students win clerkships

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

University of Kansas law students recently won five of nine summer clerkships offered by the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.

The association, whose members are law firms and independent attorneys, offered the clerkships as an effort to attract and retain diverse graduates to the Kansas City area. The clerkships are summer internships that give students hands-on experience working with a professional attorney.

Joy Batteen, coordinator of the association’s diversity program, said the students were selected based on their integrity, leadership skills and personal diversity, which included race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation and physical disability.

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It provides a new, diverse perspective to the practice of law.

— Joy Batteen

“It provides a new, diverse perspective to the practice of law,” Batteen said about the clerkship program.

Diana Lee, publications coordinator for KU’s School of Law, said the full-time, paid clerks would work for attorneys or firms by performing research and attending legal meetings, such as depositions and hearings. A law school news release said that representatives from nine firms selected from more than 30 applicants from universities in Kansas and Missouri.

Vedrana Balta, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina graduate student, will be a clerk for Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC, a Kansas City, Mo., firm. Balta said her 10-week clerkship would give her the opportunity to bring an international perspective to the firm. She said a law firm with diverse employees would help attract clients who are themselves diverse.

“I’m just really excited.” Balta said. “I hope I do a good job.”

Kansan staff writer Nathan Gill can be contacted at ngill@kansan.com.

— Edited by Darla Slipke

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