Georgetown Law partners with DLA Piper and Arent Fox to open affordable law firm
ABA JOURNAL — Georgetown Law announced it has teamed up with DLA Piper and Arent Fox to create a new nonprofit law firm designed to help low-income individuals with their civil law needs. The DC Affordable Law Firm, scheduled to open its doors in October, will be staffed by six Georgetown Law graduates.
Read More about Georgetown Law partners with DLA Piper and Arent Fox to open affordable law firmNew UW School of Law program to help minority law students finish degrees and pass bar
THE SEATTLE TIMES — The UW is establishing the Gregoire Fellows, a new program to support nine minority law students each year, guaranteeing them summer fellowships at local law firms, and giving them a mentoring relationship with Gregoire and help studying for the bar exam.
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HOUSTON CHRONICLE –Thanks to a nearly $200,000 grant from the Houston Endowment, South Texas College of Law is starting a new immigration clinic, in addition to the other clinics they already have going. This one will be designed to offer free legal service to unaccompanied minors, adults, and families, and to build on an existing…
Read More about South Texas College of Law launches immigration law clinicWilliam & Mary receives state grant to expand veterans legal clinic
WILLIAMSBURG YORKTOWN DAILY — A legal clinic at the William & Mary Law School is expanding its efforts with the help of a state grant. The Lewis B. Puller Jr. Veterans Benefit Clinic is slated to receive $245,000 from the commonwealth of Virginia to increase its services to veterans. The grant will fund the addition…
Read More about William & Mary receives state grant to expand veterans legal clinicNebraska Law to expand facilities for clinics
OMAHA WORLD HERALD — The University of Nebraska College of Law will break ground this week on a 14,000-square-foot addition to house its legal clinics and potential expansions.
Read More about Nebraska Law to expand facilities for clinicsUniversity of Wyoming names law school dean
CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE — The University of Wyoming College of Law has a new dean. Klint Alexander, a political science and international law lecturer from Vanderbilt University.
Read More about University of Wyoming names law school deanSenate encourages collaboration between Dept. of Veterans Affairs and law school clinics
WVEC-TV (ABC) — The College of William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law’s Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic is being cited by the U.S. Senate for its work to help vets get the benefits they earned.
Read More about Senate encourages collaboration between Dept. of Veterans Affairs and law school clinicsOpinion: Demand for “food law” practitioners is great
FOOD SAFETY NEWS — The need couldn’t be greater. Food, too, needs a good lawyer.
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BLOOMBERG — Law school is absolutely essential — not for lawyers with clients, but for our society as a whole.
Read More about Opinion: Why law school remains essentialABA launches study on how technology and innovation can expand access to legal services
CHICAGO TRIBUNE — The American Bar Association president, whose term began in August, wants to mark his year-long tenure with a major push for innovation in the legal industry.
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