Widener Delaware Law launches program to support legal needs of low-income and small business inventors
WDDE (NPR DELAWARE) – Widener University Delaware Law School launched a new, free public service Monday that will give legal advice to potential inventors.
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BAYLOR – Each year, November is recognized as National Adoption Month, and for the eighth consecutive year, Baylor Law School hosted its pro bono Adoption Day clinic on Nov. 20.
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KPBS (SAN DIEGO) – For the last 10 years California Western has operated community law clinics in four communities: downtown San Diego, City Heights, Lemon Grove and Solana Beach.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF LAW – The City of Moss Point, Mississippi, has agreed to stop the practice of jailing citizens while they wait to appear in court on misdemeanor charges, such as disorderly conduct or public intoxication. The settlement agreement was reached in a federal civil rights class action lawsuit filed by…
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UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS – For the students in the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Juvenile Justice Clinic, Dixon’s story drove home the need for sentencing reform.
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TULANE UNIVERSITY – It’s part of a new partnership between the Tulane Sports Law Program and the New Orleans Urban Youth Academy. Adding a sports law program was the brainchild of UYA director Eddie Davis III and Gabe Feldman, law professor and director of the Tulane Sports Law Program.
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KSTU (FOX SALT LAKE CITY) – A law professor and his students are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether a life without parole sentence for a 17-year-old convicted killer is excessive.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL – The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at Yale Law School ended an 11-year legal battle on Monday, after a gag order forbidding their client from speaking about a National Security Letter (NSL) he received from the FBI was lifted.
Read More about Yale Law Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic wins long legal battle over FBI national security letterCornell Law international human rights clinic works on behalf of Malawian death-row prisoners
CORNELL UNIVERSITY – You don’t go into human rights work expecting to see massive change overnight. But that’s just what happened to students working with Professor Sandra Babcock on behalf of Malawian death-row prisoners as part of Cornell Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic.
Read More about Cornell Law international human rights clinic works on behalf of Malawian death-row prisonersOpinion: Low bono models may help close the access to justice gap in D.C.
THE WASHINGTON POST – One idea gaining momentum: “low-bono” legal services, where lawyers charge affordable fees to work for those who can’t afford the District’s average rate of $250 per hour but who make a little too much to qualify for legal aid. While pro-bono work is offered for free, the low-bono models provide adequate…
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