Melina A. Healey (Touro), Opening Up the In-House: A Model for Collaborative Holistic Services and Education in Law School Clinical Programs, 75 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 152 (2024): 

Individual in-house clinics too commonly operate autonomously behind separate walls. These barriers impair the meaningful holistic representation of clients and the educational opportunities of clinic students. This article provides an argument and framework for opening the doors between clinics to enrich clinic student education and enhance client representation. Part I identifies the benefits of holistic inter-clinic collaboration for both clinic students and the clients they serve. Part II shares a model for how to integrate education and client service across practice areas of clinical programs. A forthcoming article, published separately, will further describe how clinical programs can be improved by removing silos in evaluation and creating unified programmatic-level clinical student and course assessment tools, which can in turn also illustrate the essential value of clinic to legal education.

Conclusion
In house clinics have become unnecessarily siloed. This move to specialization in clinics has come at the expense of critical collaboration between clinic faculty and students. Great benefits for clinic clients and students can be gained by collaborating across clinics to serve clients, engage in joint educational opportunities, and assess students and the clinic at a programmatic level.

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