2023 CLEA Student Awards for Clinics and Externships: Loyola New Orleans’s Clifford Fields, Alexys Peron, Jessica Barton, Aspen Murphy, and Kevin Michot

The Clinical Legal Education Association invited law schools to nominate students as their Outstanding Clinic Student or Team and Outstanding Externship student. This series includes submissions from law schools celebrating their outstanding students.

Loyola New Orleans nominated these Family Law Student Practitioners: Clifford Fields, Alexys Peron, Jessica Barton, Aspen Murphy, and Kevin Michot.

The Family Law Section represented children in five custody cases with children ranging in age from 4 to 16 years of age. This team gained a protective order for a 15 year girl in an abuse case and successfully advocated for three little girls in a nonparent case with allegations of drug abuse and domestic violence. After 13 scheduled trial dates, the nonparents dismissed their intervention. In other cases, the team represented clients in divorces, continuing tutorships and absent defendant cases. The student practitioners made 20 Court appearances this Spring 2023 semester.