UC Irvine Law students help homeless persons recover and maintain their seized belongings
UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW – Sarah Dawley and Carol Park, 2L students of the UCI Law Civil Rights Litigation Clinic, helped homeless people residing in the Santa Ana riverbed recover and maintain their seized belongings.
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW – The UC Irvine Law VA Benefits Project and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP successfully persuaded a federal appellate court to vacate and remand a Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision that denied service-connected benefits to a U.S. Marine Corps veteran suffering from combat related post-traumatic stress disorder.
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM – James Niemann, inaugural director of the University of Missouri Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (ELC) at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, received the President’s Award for Economic Development, which includes a $5,000 prize. The award recognizes faculty of the four University of Missouri System campuses who have directly contributed to the economic development of…
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NEW ENGLAND LAW SCHOOL | BOSTON – The Center for Law and Social Responsibility launched the new CORI Initiative, which connects New England Law student volunteers with qualified clients to complete the sealing process.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL – When Nabihah Maqbool, ’18, launched a new pro bono project dedicated to helping LGBTQ prisoners find answers to legal questions, she’d expected to draw only a handful of other students.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW – The Summer Public Interest Fellowship is a new competitive program that selects public-interested minded students as fellows and places them at public interest organizations across Miami-Dade County.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW – The Florida Supreme Court ruled that juvenile courts cannot reject the dependency petitions filed on behalf of immigrant children without an evidentiary hearing. Professors Bernard Perlmutter and Rebecca Sharpless wrote amicus briefs in the case, brought by a Guatemalan teenager who had entered the United States without a visa…
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KUER (NPR UTAH) – The group is called LawX, it’s a semester-long project led by Kimball Parker, a practicing lawyer in Salt Lake City.
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COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL – The students have been actively working with Professor Bernard Harcourt to prevent the execution of Doyle Lee Hamm.
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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW – Law students from Maine are providing volunteer legal help to immigrant and refugee women held at a federal detention center in Texas.
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