UNM Law Child and Family Justice Clinic help middle school families prepare for immigration emergencies
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW – Students in the Child and Family Justice Clinic (CFJC) developed, presented and distributed an Immigration Emergency Child Safety Plan kit designed to help immigrant families prepare for immigration emergencies.
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NEWSDAY – Thirty Hofstra University law students volunteered at the Salvadoran consulate in Brentwood on Saturday to help young immigrants apply for renewal of their temporary protection from deportation before Thursday’s deadline, as the Trump administration begins to wind down the DACA program.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL – LL.M. students at the Law School now have a unique way to gain practical experience, working with actual clients on real legal matters, in a new pro bono program begun by Karen Lundquist, assistant professor of ESL and legal skills.
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW – More than 100 students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of UNC School of Law gathered at the Johnston Center for Academic Excellence on campus in late September to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the school’s Pro Bono Program.
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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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