Law students from all three of Connecticut’s law schools currently provide volunteer assistance in the New Haven and Hartford Superior Courts to self-represented individuals seeking domestic violence protective orders. This is a valuable service to the applicants and to the courts, helping to insure that applications for temporary restraining orders (TROs) are properly prepared, and that applicants are informed about what they need to do to have their orders served by marshals and about the court process after the respondents are served.
In performing this service, law students meet with prospective applicants for TROs, explain the process to them, and assist them in preparing applications and supporting affidavits. The students are not authorized to provide legal advice, but they do assure that applicants allege sufficient facts in their affidavits to support the issuance of an ex parte order, answer applicants’ questions about the law and legal procedure and, in so doing, may unintentionally cross the line between providing clerical assistance and giving legal advice.
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