J UVENILE R ECORD S EALING I: S YLLABUS
S PRING 2016
Professor Katya Dow e-mail: phone:
Office: kbglockn@Central.UH.EDU
713-320-3064
Krost Hall 204 (I am only there sporadically; please call to arrange office hours)
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Materials will be made available in class and/or via e-mail.
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Pursuant to UH Law policy, you must attend all of the regularly scheduled classes. Class will be
Tuesday from 2-3 pm beginning August in BLB-1. In the highly unlikely event a make-up class is necessary, it will be scheduled in accordance with UHLC policy.
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This class is a pass/fail class. In order to pass the class students must complete sealing on the cases they are assigned on the first day by December 5 th , 2015, unless a legal or client issue arises so that the case cannot be sealed or the case requires an extension of the hearing date.
Requirements on all cases include:
- Emailing a written memo of the case status every Friday.
- CCing me on all correspondence to clients, service on agencies, or any other correspondence regarding a case.
- Sending service on all agencies of both the application and the signed Order.
- Attending the sealing hearing.
- Keeping the client notified of relevant case issues (hearing dates, etc.)
-Turning in a file containing hard copies of final memo and signed certified Order with proof of service on all appropriate agencies.