UNC Law students provide pro bono legal assistance with driver’s license restoration and immigration
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — UNC Law students in the Pro Bono Program traveled during their spring break to the North Carolina coast and to Georgia to help clients working to restore their driver licenses as well as detainees seeking bond and parole.
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recognized Law Students Against Sexual and Domestic Violence (LSASDV) for the organization’s work in helping survivors obtain court orders that provide protection from their abusers.
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THE OXFORD EAGLE — Mississippi Law’s Criminal Appeals Clinic law students professional cases in the state of Mississippi, providing them experience in a professional courtroom as well as experience with proper procedure. The real-life experience the clinic provides a student makes the transition to a professional lawyer much easier.
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NEIGHBORWORKS AMERICA — University of Mississippi’s Housing Clinic help residents of Eastmoor file a lawsuit against the city, county, and owner for failing to fulfill their duties of managing the sanitary-sewer infrastructure.
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CLARION LEDGER — Corinth has settled a federal lawsuit accusing the city of running a modern-day debtors’ prison, which has been outlawed for 200 years.The Southern Poverty Law Center and the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law filed a lawsuit accusing Corinth and Municipal Court Judge John C. Ross of…
Read More about Mississsippi Law filed lawsuit with city accused of unlawfully jailing people unable to pay finesUMKC Law receives grant to support sharing innovation courses with Missouri Law students
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The UMKC School of Law has been awarded a University of Missouri system grant to support sharing UMKC’s innovative courses with University of Missouri School of Law students. The grant will extend connections between classroom and community that make UMKC School of Law’s program unique and valuable.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF LAW — Three University of Minnesota Law students worked directly with lawyers on a U.S. Supreme court case that would clarify the limits of imposing political-speech restrictions at polling places. While clerking in the Civil Division of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, 3L students Amy Hang, Theo Heckel, and Jordan…
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF LAW — Amy Hang (’18), a student attorney in the Law School’s Ronald M. Mankoff Tax Clinic, recently won a favorable ruling for clients before the U.S. Tax Court in St. Paul on an issue that usually favors the IRS.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF LAW — Students in the Law School’s James H. Binger Center for New Americans and recent Law School graduates played key roles in a class action litigation effort that won a court order on Tuesday, December 19, temporarily blocking the deportation of 92 Somali men and women.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF LAW — University of Minnesota Law’s James H. Binger Center for New Americans organized a trip for five law students and one public policy student to give up their vacation time to help service the legal needs of immigrants in the rural Midwest.
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