Unemployment Compensation Clinic

Unemployment Compensation Clinic students represent unemployed workers whose eligibility for unemployment benefits is being challenged.  They handle contested administrative hearings, essentially mini-trials, before Administrative Law Judges.  In addition, students may represent their clients in appeals to the Commissioner of the Employment Security Department, or the Washington Courts.

Unemployment Compensation Clinic News

• WA Supreme Court issues favorable decision in Unemployment Compensation Clinic client’s case
  On June 19, 2008 the Washington S. Ct. issued a favorable decision, 9-0, in Spain v. Employment Security Dept. and Batey v. ESD.   The court did not reach the state constitution subject-in-title question raised by the clinic’s case, Batey.  Instead, the court accepted Spain’s argument that 2003 amendments to the voluntary quit statute do not create an exclusive list of reasons constituting good cause for leaving work.
• Pam Crone working with Child Advocacy
  In 2008 former UCC Acting Director Pam Crone supervised four students who worked in the Child Advocacy Clinic's initial Legislative Policy Clinic.   The students worked with the Washington State Bar Association's Juvenile Law Section on policy issues affecting youth in foster care.
• Debbie Maranville gives international presentation
  During her 2006-2007 sabbatical Clinic Director Debbie Maranville spoke at Australian National University in Canberra and University of Technology in Sydney about the effect of globalization on the ability of governments to provide public benefits. On returning from her sabbatical she became the Director of the Clinical Law Program.
• Deborah Maranvile named new clinic director - UW Law Spring '08