UVA Law student-run tax assistance program wins ABA award

September 19, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW – Students at the University of Virginia School of Law have been recognized by the American Bar Association with the 2016 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Award for leading University efforts to help taxpayers prepare their own returns.

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Golden Gate University Law’s Women’s Employment Rights Clinic wins case to solidify permanent overtime rights for California domestic workers

September 19, 2016

YAHOO! FINANCE – Golden Gate University School of Law’s Women’s Employment Rights Clinic has served as legal counsel to the California Domestic Workers Coalition since 2010 in the Coalition’s effort to extend basic wage and hour protections to domestic workers.

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UC Berkeley Law hosts disadvantaged high school students for law development program

September 19, 2016

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RECORD – Close to 40 young people from low-income communities from the East Bay area this year graduated from an annual two-month legal fellowship program.

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University of Wyoming Law clinics to help fill gap in legal advice services for students

September 19, 2016

SCOTTSBLUFF STAR HERALD – The university is recommending other options, including clinics at UW’s College of Law.

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Business development clinic at Albany Law School to provide free legal services to small business owners

September 19, 2016

ALBANY BUSINESS REVIEW – A new business development clinic at Albany Law School will provide free legal services to current or future small business owners in the region, said Alicia Ouellette, president and dean.

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University of Michigan Law School innocence clinic helps free wrongly convicted adoptive mother

September 19, 2016

WWMT (CBS WEST MICHIGAN) – David Moran, President of the Michigan Innocence Clinic at U of M Law School, said the Michigan Innocence Clinic picked up Swain’s case in 2009.

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Former University of Washington Law professor to receive distinguished service award from state bar’s civil rights section

September 19, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW – Deputy director of the ACLU of Washington, Michele Storms, received the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from the Washington State Bar Association Civil Rights Section.

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Tulsa Law externship program helps students explore different career paths in legal profession

September 19, 2016

TULSA BUSINESS & LEGAL NEWS – The Experiential Learning program links students with supervising attorneys and judges where participants learn about available opportunities they might want to pursue.

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University of New Mexico Law alumni and students work to release detainee from Guantanamo

September 19, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW – Third year law students Daniel Enriquez, Sarah Mahoney and Alan Heinz conducted extensive research for Nancy Hollander and Theresa “Teri” Duncan, who represent a detainee in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay.

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Cincinnati Law receives record-breaking gift to support Ohio Innocence Project

September 19, 2016

CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER – Longtime Cincinnati philanthropist Richard “Dick” Rosenthal made the largest-ever gift to any innocence program in the country to the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

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