University of Minnesota Law Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic provides legal aid to local small businesses
STAR TRIBUNE — Small business owners, start-ups, nonprofit organizations, inventors and entrepreneurs can get their intellectual property questions answered for free from the University of Minnesota Law School’s Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Clinic.
Read More about University of Minnesota Law Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic provides legal aid to local small businessesGrant to Northeastern Law Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project to support research and investigation efforts
NORTHEASTERN UNIV. LAW — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $750,000 to the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University School of Law to support its pathbreaking work in investigating and archiving acts of racial terror in the South between 1930 and the 1970s. CRRJ is the nation’s pioneer program in…
Read More about Grant to Northeastern Law Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project to support research and investigation effortsNorthwestern Law joins Diversity Lab project
ABA JOURNAL — Northwestern Law announced its participation in a diversity partnership with four firms and an incubator that focuses on inclusion in the profession. The law firms—Eversheds Sutherland, Goodwin, Orrick and Stoel Rives—invested $5 million to launch Move the Needle Fund with the Diversity Lab, and Northwestern is the only law school in the…
Read More about Northwestern Law joins Diversity Lab projectPace Law Global Center for Environmental Law offers solutions to global environment challenges at conference
PACE UNIVERSITY HAUB LAW — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University’s Global Center for Environmental Law further cements its global impact by submitting nine motions for consideration at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Conference. Haub Law is one of only two law schools in the United…
Read More about Pace Law Global Center for Environmental Law offers solutions to global environment challenges at conferenceRutgers Law Medical-Legal Partnership addresses legal issues in patient care
RUTGERS LAW — Through the Rutgers Law School Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) with the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, patients have opportunities to improve their quality of life by resolving legal issues as well as getting the health care they need. Working alongside the Camden Coalition’s nurses, social workers, and community health staff, MLP attorney Jeremy…
Read More about Rutgers Law Medical-Legal Partnership addresses legal issues in patient careStanford Law professor Michelle Mello provides data on out-of-network health care billing
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — Surprise, out-of-network charges billed to privately insured Americans who received inpatient care at in-network hospitals more than doubled between 2010 and 2016, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. A data-drive study by Laurence Baker (Stanford Law) and Michelle Mello (Standford Law) shows the financial…
Read More about Stanford Law professor Michelle Mello provides data on out-of-network health care billingUniversity of Utah Law students work with Rocky Mountain Innocence Center to overturn wrongful conviction
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH LAW — The Rocky Mountain Innocence Center (RMIC) has cleared the name of a man wrongfully convicted of aggravated sexual assault more than two decades ago. Utah Third District Court Judge Royal I. Hansen signed an order on Sept. 10 exonerating Christopher Wickham, who spent 15 years in prison for a crime…
Read More about University of Utah Law students work with Rocky Mountain Innocence Center to overturn wrongful convictionMore than 20 law school clinics create network to support First Amendment issues for journalists
YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) announced on September 4, 2019 the launch of the Free Expression Legal Network (FELN) a coalition of law school clinicians and academic non-clinicians who provide pro bono legal support for public interest…
Read More about More than 20 law school clinics create network to support First Amendment issues for journalistsBYU Law offers free legal services for first responders
DAILY HERALD — Utah County’s first responders will have the chance to create free wills this week through a program from Brigham Young University’s law school. The BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School is offering the Wills for Heroes program Friday as part of its alumni weekend. The event will pair first responders with a…
Read More about BYU Law offers free legal services for first respondersCentral Park Five defendants discuss case and exoneration at Duke Law
DUKE LAW — Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana asked Duke Law students to remember the story of the Exonerated Five as they begin their careers, and said that speaking to future members of the legal profession has helped them heal the emotional trauma from their case.
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