Advocacy Exercise Preparation!!

As you prepare for your first advocacy exercise, please bear in mind the following points:

Please be conversant with the goal of the exercise in the grey box on page 103. To effectuate this goal, you will have to step into your role the minute the exercise begins. The consultations between "lawyers" and "clients" at the beginning of the exercise are crucial. Thus, you should come prepared to exploit your creative interpretations of your roles when you enter those discussions.

When preparing for your roles in the advocacy exercise, please first read the instructions that appear right beneath the grey boxed goals on page 103. Also, go to the LSSC general Blackboard, where you will find:

* A "video clips" folder that now contains three video clips (two with sound, one without) ;
* An article on migrant worker health care access issues; and
* As this meeting may result in litigious or non litigious negotiation opportunities between the parties, you will also find a document on negotiation strategies and styles.

These supplementary materials will give you a sense of lawyering methods and the factual context of your role. Next, as regards your lawyering choices and strategies, bear in mind that last week's readings discussed the real and perceived impacts of culture on individuals and communities. Furthermore, be aware that this week's readings deal with the representational decisions lawyers make with regard to their clients' goals. Both weeks of readings deal with the power dynamics between lawyers and clients, and with the pressures applied to both the lawyers and the clients by their respective cultures.

Observers: be sure to read and understand your instructions in the assignment description. Your role is essential to this exercise, because your observations will lead and inform our debriefing discussion.

Good luck!