To schedule an appointment email: sls@uwyo.edu
The following is the scheduling process for Student Legal Services:
- Student emails the Student Legal Services (SLS) office at sls@uwyo.edu;
- Student should review the limited scope agreement (see below)
- The SLS office staff asks students preliminary screening questions to ensure the student
qualifies for services:
- Student's name or W# to check for full-time status or that student paid the fee package
- Does this issue involve another student, the University of Wyoming, or a University
of Wyoming student group?
- If student is eligible for services the office staff will email the student an intake form;
- Student thoroughly fills out intake form and emails the intake back to the office
staff;
- Office staff calls student and schedules student an appointment with the Student Legal
Services attorney.
Make the most of your appointment!
To make the most out of your appointment please be sure to:
- Thoroughly fill out the intake form.
- The more information you provide on the intake form, the better prepared the attorney
for Student Legal Services will be for your appointment.
- If you do not thoroughly explain your issue the attorney will not be able to research
any areas with which she is unfamiliar. This could result in the attorney being unable
to assist you during the first appointment. In this situation you would be required
to return for at least one follow-up visit.
- Bring any documentation relating to the issue (lease agreement, demand letters, citations,
court summons, etc.)
Limited Scope of Representation Agreement:
Notice of Limited Representation
The Wyoming Rules of Professional Conduct allow attorneys to offer limited representation
to clients. This means that a lawyer may agree to help you with part of your legal
problem, but not all of it. As long as the scope of this limited representation is
reasonable, the client has notice of the limited representation, and the client consents
to the scope of the limited representation, it is allowed.
The scope of legal services offered by Student Legal Services is limited at the discretion
of the students’ attorney and by mandatory limitations on the program put in place
by the Board of Trustees. Student Legal Services cannot litigate on behalf of students
and cannot advise students if their dispute is against another student, the University
of Wyoming, or a University of Wyoming Recognized Student Organization.
When a lawyer and client agree to a limited scope representation, the lawyer must
act in the client’s best interest and give competent help with the agreed-upon issue.
Please understand:
The lawyer DOES NOT HAVE TO GIVE MORE HELP than what was agreed to in the Limited
Scope Representation Agreement.
The lawyer DOES NOT HAVE TO HELP with any other legal problem or any other part of
the same legal problem.
If you want help from Student Legal Services beyond what you agreed to in the Limited
Scope Representation Agreement, you must ask the lawyer for more help, the lawyer
must agree to help you, and you must both agree to and sign a new agreement outlining
the scope of the new services. Student Legal Services is not obligated to help you
with any further legal issues.
Scope of Limited Representation
I agree that Student Legal Services will provide legal advice for the following legal
issue(s): TBD upon receipt of the intake form.
Consent to Limited Representation
By responding and me telling you have read it, understand it, and agree to the limited
scope representation, you acknowledge that you read and understand the Notice of Limited
Representation. You understand and agree that Student Legal Services is not your
attorney for any other purpose and does not have to give me legal help beyond what
is written in the Scope of Limited Representation. You also understand that the Board
of Trustees of the University of Wyoming has placed limitations upon the services
that Student Legal Services can provide. You agree that the address you provided
below is your permanent address where you can be reached. You understand that it
is important that the opposing party, if any, and a court, if your case is a court
case, be able to reach you at this address in the event Student Legal Services ends
its limited representation. You, therefore, agree that you will inform any court
and opposing party involved in your case if there is a change to your permanent address.