West Virginia Law’s Land Use and Sustainable Development clinic receives federal grant to support conservation activities
WEST VIRGINIA RECORD – A $150,000 grant from the Natural Resource Conservation Service recently was offered to the West Virginia University Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Clinic to support an ongoing partnership.
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HISPANIC OUTLOOK IN HIGHER EDUCATION MAGAZINE – David Dow, a distinguished professor at the University of Houston Law Center and founder of the Texas Innocence Network, which represents death-sentenced inmates, is spear-heading two new programs: one involving mentoring at-risk middle school students and the other focuses on sealing juvenile offenders’ records.
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MILITARY TIMES – About a dozen groups besides VOA work out of the center, including the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Veterans Advocacy Project, in which attorneys and law students — often veterans themselves — help vets with issues such as disability cases and discharge upgrades.
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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE – Jim was arrested 10 years before Dara Gell was born but she will forever remember working his case. Ms. Gell, now 24 and in her final year of law school at Cardozo, interned in 2014 at the Innocence Project and was assigned Jim’s case as one last-ditch effort.
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NWI.COM – Established more than 30 years ago, the Valparaiso University School of Law’s criminal law clinic offers something not many others do. A licensed law firm, the clinic enables third-year law students to gain experience while providing free or low-cost legal services to clients charged with misdemeanors or felonies.
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COOK COUNTY RECORD – IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law has announced a partnership with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to create a program designed to assist low-income inventors and small business in Illinois who qualify.
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RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH – The Lara D. Gass Symposium at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, on Feb. 5-6, will highlight Giarratano’s case to “explore the ethical, legal and public policy issues surrounding the use of the death penalty.”
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THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER – “As dean, Chemerinsky stresses public service and the need to prepare students to practice law by having them participate in legal clinics. Chemerinsky often argues cases before the nation’s highest courts, most recently against an Arizona law that prohibited ethnic-studies curriculum.”
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UC HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW – The University of California Hastings College of the Law Board of Directors announced the appointment of nationally renowned scholar David L. Faigman as Acting Chancellor & Dean, effective Friday, January 1st, 2016.
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PENSACOLA NEWS JOURNAL – Local attorney Terence A. Gross has made a $50,000 donation to a diversity scholarship fund at the Florida State University College of Law, and in recognition of his support, the law school will name a conference room in his honor.
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