University at Buffalo Law Veterans Legal Practicum moves online

May 14, 2020

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW — Last month, COVID-19 interrupted this vital in-person work. What to do? The obvious: move online. The practicum has now begun operating its popular help desks through an online portal, using a confidential sign-up inquiry system to offer meetings via Zoom to interested veterans.

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UC Hastings Law files lawsuit over sidewalk maintenance and ‘homeless containment’ zones in San Francisco

May 14, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER — UC Hastings College of the Law and others filed a lawsuit Monday asking the courts to intervene in the “desperate crisis” unfolding on the streets of the Tenderloin.

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UC Irvine Law student Emily Genzlinger receives Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award

May 14, 2020

UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Emily Genzlinger, a 3L at the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law), has been selected for a 2020 Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award. She is one of only eight law students selected for the award — chosen from more than 125 applicants, Emily was selected for her…

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UC Irvine Law students provide pro bono legal services during crisis

May 14, 2020

UCI NEWS — The COVID-19 pandemic has awakened a vigorous spirit of public service in countless people across the globe. For UCI Law students, however, the urge to serve the most vulnerable is far from new.

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UCLA Law clinic students participate in lawsuit seeking to protect at-risk prisoners during pandemic

May 14, 2020

UCLA LAW — Members of three UCLA School of Law clinics are part of a coalition including people who are incarcerated in Los Angeles County jails, lawyers and activists that has sued the county and county sheriff’s department seeking the release of medically vulnerable people and the implementation of heightened health and safety standards in jails…

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Former US Attorney General Eric Holder to deliver UCLA Law commencement address online

May 14, 2020

UCLA LAW — Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will deliver the keynote address to the UCLA School of Law Class of 2020 at the law school’s virtual commencement ceremony on May 15.

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UCLA Law professor Sameer Ashar honored by AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education for scholarship

May 14, 2020

UCLA LAW — Professor Sameer Ashar, UCLA School of Law’s vice dean of experiential education, has been honored with the inaugural Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award from the Association of American Law Schools’ clinical section.

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University of Cincinnati Law’s Ohio Innocence Project helps free wrongfully convicted man

May 14, 2020

UC NEW — The Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) at the UC College of Law, took up the case of the Cincinnati man convicted in 2008 of armed robbery and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Michele Berry Godsey, a 2006 UC College of Law alumnus and former OIP participant, represented Smith both at his original trial in Hamilton County…

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University of Cincinnati Law’s Ohio Innocence Project helps free wrongfully convicted client after 46 years in prison

May 14, 2020

UC NEWS — Andrews, now 82, thought he’d die in prison. But on Wednesday, nearly 46 years after he was incarcerated, he finally walked out of prison a free man, thanks to the tireless work of law students, professors and attorneys at the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

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A look at the Korey Wise Innocence Project at University of Colorado Law

May 14, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW — The weekend of May 31, 2019, started out normally for Anne-Marie Moyes, director of the Korey Wise Innocence Project (KWIP) at Colorado Law. She caught up with volunteers, reviewed applications, and made a few calls.

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