University of Kansas Law offers free tax preparation services for qualifying residents

February 20, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS – As tax season gets underway, two University of Kansas groups are offering free tax preparation services for those who qualify.

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Notre Dame Law School students in Exoneration Project help wrongfully convicted

February 20, 2018

WSBT (CBS SOUTH BEND) – Tucked in the corner of Notre Dame’s School of Law, you’ll find these students, working for those they believe shouldn’t be [in prison].

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University of Maine Law students work on front lines of immigration in Texas over winter break

February 20, 2018

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD – University of Maine School of Law students are working directly on the ground during a seismic shift in federal immigration policy.

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South Texas College of Law Houston hosts moot court competition for Texas high school students

February 20, 2018

SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON – Competition judges, comprised of South Texas faculty, practitioners, judges, students, and alumni, heard the students’ arguments and provided them with feedback on ways to improve their cases.

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University of Tennessee College of Law to host state Court of Appeals for four appellate cases

February 20, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW – Judges John Westley McClarty, Thomas R. Frierson and W. Neal McBrayer will journey to the university campus to demonstrate the work of the appellate court.

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University of Nebraska Law students and professors volunteer at public schools through leadership club

February 20, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN – Twenty-eight law students and four College of Law professors volunteered at Benson High, Omaha Northwest, and Omaha South, as part of each schools’ THRIVE Leadership Club programming.

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Cleveland-Marshall Law students work on bail reform during pop-up practicum

February 12, 2018

CLEVELAND-MARSHALL SCHOOL OF LAW – The students participated by reviewing reports on best practices for bail and pretrial release by national organizations, and wrote response papers for the benefit of the task force.

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Washburn Law offers pop-up veterans legal assistance clinic

February 12, 2018

KMAJ (TOPEKA) – Students who have been certified will provide free legal services relating to criminal records expungement and to the preparation of wills and advance directives.

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Yale Law’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic files motion on behalf of New York Times seeking publication of relevant FISA court records

February 12, 2018

YALE LAW SCHOOL – On February 5, 2018, the Yale Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed a motion on behalf of New York Times reporters Adam Goldman and Charlie Savage and the New York Times Company.

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Oregon Governor grants Lewis & Clark Law’s Criminal Justice Reform Clinic’s clemency petition for client

February 12, 2018

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL – Law professor Aliza Kaplan and law students Maya Rinta ’19 and Sarah Rissberger ’18 wrote the petition last summer.

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