Legal Clinic

Address of the clinic: 49050, Dnipro, st. Naukova str., 13, building number 9, room. 302
Phone: (056) 374-97-22
E-mail: dnipro.honchar.legalclinic@gmail.com

The Legal Clinic was established in 2007 with the aim of consolidating the students' theoretical knowledge and acquiring them practical skills and skills of the profession of lawyer, forming their respect for the principles of law, raising the level of legal culture of the population, as well as providing free legal assistance to those who need it. A separate line of activity of the clinic is to provide high-quality free legal assistance to the staff and students of the DNU.

The main tasks of the Clinic are:
• acquiring students practical skills of the profession of lawyer;
• creating places for students to study and other types of practice;
• providing citizens of the low-income groups with free legal aid;
• carrying out measures on legal education of the population.

The consultants of the Legal Clinic are senior students of the faculty, which in various forms, under the guidance of curators and teachers provide legal assistance to the population.

The Structure of the Legal Clinic

Director of Legal Clinic – Olena Valentynivna Zabrodina carries out the current management of the Legal Clinic, selection of students of the Faculty of Law for work in a Legal Clinic, and also approves candidates for consultants for participation in conferences and Olympiads.

Leading expert of the Legal Clinic – Stasiuk Olexiy Mykolayivych coordinates students' work during the reception of citizens and conducts practical and theoretical lessons with students;

Senior Laboratory of the Legal Clinic – Yuliya Іvanivna Izyumskaya, accepts citizens' requests, keeps a register of admission of citizens, supervises the training of undergraduate and pre-diploma practitioners.

Educational Activity of the Clinic

Legal Clinic carries out legal education, namely on the basis of the Legal Clinic of the DNU, where the following scientific-practical conferences were held:
1) All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference "Legal Education of Legal Clinics on the Basis of Higher Educational Institutions" - April 24, 2009;
2) II All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference "Law-Based Activity of Legal Clinics on the Basis of Higher Educational Institutions" - March 18, 2011;
3) III All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference "Legal Education of Legal Clinics on the Basis of Higher Educational Institutions" - May 17, 2013;
4) IV All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference "Educational Activities of Legal Clinics on the Basis of Higher Educational Institutions" - May 15, 2015.
5) V All-Ukrainian scientific-practical conference "Law-education activity of legal clinics on the basis of higher educational institutions" - May 12, 2017.

Interesting reports and announcements of students, young scientists, scientific and pedagogical workers, as well as practicing lawyers and lawyers were presented at these conferences, which highlighted current legal problems of legal clinics of higher legal educational institutions of Ukraine.

Before the beginning of the conferences were published collections of abstracts:
- "Law-education activity of legal clinics on the basis of higher educational institutions": Materials of the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists. Ed. Sokolenko O.L. - Dnipropetrovsk 2009 -175;
- "Law-education activity of legal clinics on the basis of higher educational institutions": materials of II All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference of students, postgraduates and young scientists / According to the. Ed. Sokolenko O.L. - Dnipropetrovsk 2011 -192;
- "Law-education activity of legal clinics on the basis of higher educational institutions": materials of III All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference of students, postgraduates and young scientists / According to. Ed. Sokolenko O.L. - Dnipropetrovsk 2013.-125 .;
- "Law-education activity of legal clinics on the basis of higher educational institutions": materials of IV All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference of students, postgraduates and young scientists / According to the. Ed. Small V.Yu. - Dnipropetrovsk, 2015.-32.
- "Law-education activity of legal clinics on the basis of higher educational institutions": materials of the All-Ukrainian scientific-practical conference / According to the. Ed. Zabrodina O.V. - Dnieper 2017.-125.

On the basis of the Legal Clinic of the DNU, training sessions are held on actual legal topics, interviews and counseling on different problem areas, master classes and role-playing games using interactive techniques. In addition, student counselors and clinicians provide legal advice on current legal issues in the media; lectures are held at secondary schools and orphanages on the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of children. Also, the clinic staff during the school year conducts seminars for students of all faculties of the university from the actual legal issues.

In March 2009, the students of the clinic joined the Coordinating Council of Young Lawyers at the Main Department of Justice in Dnipro Region.

On March 14-15, 2015, students of the Legal Clinic Marina Romanchuk and Kyrylo Fedorchuk took part in the National Olympiad of Legal Clinics Counseling clients, held at the Ostroh Academy National University, Ostroh.

On March 4, 2018, masters-students Tishlek Svetlana and Drigol Oleksandra took part in the National Olympiad of the Legal Clinics for Customer Counseling that took place in the city of Kyiv. Irpin (Kyiv region) on the basis of the University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.

Тhe Legal Clinic cooperates with the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine; The Main Department of Justice in Dnipro Region, and the League of Students of the Ukrainian Bar Association. Today, many positive results have been achieved in the work of the Legal Clinic in the Dnipro Region.

The main thing is that law students are actively involved in providing legal assistance to the population, which in general contributes to the development of legal consciousness of citizens and society in general. It is necessary to realize the great need for the existence of a legal clinic as a law-education organization in Ukraine. After all, knowledge of their rights and obligations gives individuals the opportunity to protect their interests, properly conduct a dialogue with law enforcement officers, state bodies, local self-government bodies, etc. structures. It is on practical law classes that students are able to learn this.

The Legal Clinic of the DNU provides free legal assistance to the students and staff of the DNU, as well as low-income citizens. We have the opportunity to receive a qualitative legal advice on administrative, land, family, labor, civil and other branches of law. We will help you make a statement, petition, complaint or claim in court. Consultations are provided by senior students of the Faculty of Law, under the guidance of highly qualified specialists.

Practitioners are required to write a journal entry: Monday-Friday: tel. (056) 374-97-22, (067) 568-66-52.