Southern Illinois Law’s Illinois Innocence Project help client get acquitted
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Students in Southern Illinois University Law’s Illinois Innocence Project helped a client get acquitted. William Amor, who was accused of murder and aggravated arson, received a 7-day bench trial. After spending 22 years in prison, the trial ended with a not guilty verdict.
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LAWDRAGON CAMPUS — Students participating in St. Mary’s Law’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic began their work with detained immigrants when the first family detention centers opened across the Southern border in 2014 in response to a wave of immigrants from Central American countries seeking asylum in the United States.
Read More about St. Mary’s Law students provide legal assistance to detainees at family detention centersSt. Mary’s Law Professor Erica Schommer helps students gain firsthand experience in immigration courts
ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — St. Mary’s Law Professor Erica B. Schommer teaches a semester-long clinic course on immigration and human rights. Schommer takes law students into immigration courts and detention centers to work with asylum seekers by serving as attorneys.
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ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — Roger Williams Law students gain legal experience helping low-income tenants avoid eviction and forging solutions to Rhode Island’s ongoing housing crisis. This effort is part of the Rhode Island Tenant Stabilization Project, which is aimed at helping low-income tenants who face eviction and possible homelessness.
Read More about Roger Williams Law students provide pro bono legal assistance to low-income tenants who face evictionRoger Williams Law students spent spring breka providing pro bono legal services in Puerto Rico
RHODE ISLAND LAWYERS WEEKLY — Roger Williams Law students spent their spring break traveling to Puerto Rico to make a difference in the Alternative Spring Break Program. The students provided pro bono legal services and got a firsthand look at the country’s access to justice crisis.
Read More about Roger Williams Law students spent spring breka providing pro bono legal services in Puerto RicoRichmond Law faculty and alumni reflect on the 10th anniversary of pro bono center
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — Alumni and faculty of the University of Richmond School of Law recollect on the history and discuss the impact of the Carrico Center for Pro Bono and Public Service as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. The Carrico Center has launched more than a dozen programs aimed at serving specific community needs.…
Read More about Richmond Law faculty and alumni reflect on the 10th anniversary of pro bono centerPittsburgh Law’s Immigration Law Clinic featured in discussion on how law schools step up to defend immigration
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Sheila Vélez Martínez, the director of clinical programs at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses how the Immigration Law Clinic chooses and handles cases during a period of uncertainty and changing laws. It is the only immigration clinic in western Pennsylvania.
Read More about Pittsburgh Law’s Immigration Law Clinic featured in discussion on how law schools step up to defend immigrationPepperdine Law’s Justice Bus provides pro bono legal assistance to rural communities
SURF REPORT — Pepperdine Law’s Justice Bus is a mobile legal clinic that takes teams of attorney and law student volunteers from urban areas to set up free legal clinics for low-income Californians living in rural and isolated communities. These clinics provide life-changing legal assistance to low-income veterans, vulnerable seniors, children with disabilities, low-wage workers, immigrant…
Read More about Pepperdine Law’s Justice Bus provides pro bono legal assistance to rural communitiesUniversity of Oklahoma Law students provide pro bono services to Oklahoma National Guard
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF LAW — University of Oklahoma Law students provided pro bono services to Oklahoma National Guard men and women recently returning from the Ukraine. These soldiers had been deployed in that region as a part of a rotating U.S. Military Training element.
Read More about University of Oklahoma Law students provide pro bono services to Oklahoma National GuardNortheastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project helps heal familes harmed from racial violence
THE WASHINGTON POST — Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project investigates cases of racial violence that occurred between 1930 and 1970. Since many of these killings went without justice, the project keeps these stories alive by alerting communities and families of a past that was lost to them. Among those cases were the…
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