Survivors Representing Survivors: Shared Experience and Identity in Direct Service Lawyering

Authors

Kelly Jo PopkinFollow

Abstract

First, the survey gauges the effects that personal experiences of gender-based violence may have on the delivery of quality direct legal representation for survivors of gender-based violence. Instead of tracking trial outcomes or other tangible legal “wins,” these questions assess metrics of quality through empathy, professional distance, client-centered practice, and other commonly regarded ideals within the practice of direct service lawyering for under-served communities. The survey also gauges the lasting effect that this work may have on the attorneys themselves, in both their approach to lawyering and their perception of gender-based violence on an individual, local, and systemic scale.

Recommended Citation

Kelly Jo Popkin, Survivors Representing Survivors: Shared Experience and Identity in Direct Service Lawyering, 5 Lincoln Mem’l U. L. Rev. (2018).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmunet.edu/lmulrev/vol5/iss1/3