Attorney Coach vs. Educator Coach and Funding

[carmelakarns]

I would like to know how many attorney coaches are there versus educator coaches.  At the moment we only have an attorney coach.  Do we need an educator coach as well?  Also, how are these coaches funded?  Is it pro bono, or by a certain fund through the college, etc.  Thanks for any light you can shed on this subject.

[nogle]

Coaches, in my experience, are largely pro bono. This year my organization is lucky to have had a few attorney coaches volunteer to help out pro bono. It seems that this is the position of many public colleges and universities but I may be wrong in that assumption. Funding is a separate beast all of its own.

[UMCane*GWB]

every school MUST have an educator coach on paper to register with AMTA. Whether or not that person actually is involved is another matter.

[theChosenOne]

Then you have the rare attorney coaches that actually teach classes at your college as well and therefore are the educator coach as well as the attorney coach.

[Plymouth Djinn]

Funding? this concept does not compute...

[UMCane*GWB]

Funding? this concept does not compute...

LOL. Such a shame isn't it PD?

[The Gelf]

I would like to know how many attorney coaches are there versus educator coaches.  At the moment we only have an attorney coach.  Do we need an educator coach as well?  Also, how are these coaches funded?  Is it pro bono, or by a certain fund through the college, etc.  Thanks for any light you can shed on this subject.

Two words:  endorsement deals.  To help pay my seven-figure salary, my current program ends each practice with at least two Cialis infomercials.

[Rane]

Two words:  endorsement deals.  To help pay my seven-figure salary, my current program ends each practice with at least two Cialis infomercials.

I'm not sure which part of this concerns me most......

[theChosenOne]

I'm not sure which part of this concerns me most......

haha it's okay. Just say all of it...

[oldpaint]

Most of the teams I have seen have an educator who has at least some legal training.  Other teams have an educator assisted by one or more volunteer lawyers.

[Blackbird]

every school MUST have an educator coach on paper to register with AMTA. Whether or not that person actually is involved is another matter.

Unless I have misunderstood the rule all these years, I don't believe that's correct.  Some groups are entirely student-run, and do not have an Educator-Coach, even on paper.  I know that when I was a student, we had no such individual, and instead obtained a letter from our Dean certifying that we were sanctioned by the University and had no Coach, educator, lawyer or otherwise.

[LetTheRecordReflect]

Student run organizations do pretty well. Case in point Harvard and NYU.