Wills Clinic

Students in Elon Law's Wills Clinic review documents with Professor Margaret Kantlehner

Elon Law’s In-House Wills Clinic gives students the opportunity to represent low-income homeowners referred by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro. Students interview clients, draft documents to meet the needs of clients, conference with clients to explain and review documents, and oversee the self-proving signing protocol for those documents.

Elon Law students walking from courtThe wills drafting course operates as a firm, where students alternate serving as the firm’s managing partner. In firm meetings, students present an ethical problem related to wills drafting and engage the class in a detailed exploration of legal issues surrounding and transfer of property at death in North Carolina.

Faculty advisor:

Margaret Kantlehner
Associate Professor of Law and Director of Externships,
Preceptors, and the Capstone Leadership Experience
(336) 279-9205
mkantlehner@elon.edu