University of Notre Dame Law students Melvin Hydleburg and Zahraa Nasser win asylum case for client
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Amid COVID-19 cancellations and challenges, Melvin Hydleburg and Zahraa Nasser, both second-year students at Notre Dame Law School, argued and won an asylum case last month through the Law School’s National Immigrant Justice Center Externship.
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW — Oregon Law has a long history of dedication to public service. In a year with a global pandemic and remote learning – that hasn’t changed. The law school recently reported that during the 2019-2020 academic year, 45 students logged 3,996 hours of pro bono work.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Several student-led groups within the Toll Public Interest Center (TPIC) came up with creative, socially-distant ways for law students to collaborate with local legal aid advocates who have been working hard to provide relief to those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic.
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NBC 12 — University of Virginia Law School students are gearing up to act as “poll observers,” at polling places in Charlottesville and Albemarle County on Election Day. Their main objective: To prevent voter intimidation and harassment. Poll observers will be stationed inside and outside polling places.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — When a Charlottesville-area woman bought a used car that needed substantial repairs she could not afford, she soon found herself in financial and legal distress. After turning to the Legal Aid Justice Center and two University of Virginia School of Law students, she saved about $10,000 in court.
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ABA JOURNAL — More than 150 law firms and about 23,000 volunteers are participating this year in an election protection program run by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The number of volunteers is about five times the number in 2016. Volunteers will answer questions about polling places, mail-in ballots and other election issues.
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Under the guidance of the Community Economic Development Clinic within The Justice Center at Albany Law School, Jack Magai has closed on the sole-proprietorship-to-employee-ownership conversion of the company—now called the More Trees Arborist Collective LLC—to his four colleagues.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — The work of American University Washington College of Law’s Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and its co-director, Professor Susan Bennett, is featured in a recent Washington Post article on efforts to remove racist housing covenants for local residents.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Several students engaged in direct client service, addressing the many challenges facing refugees, asylum seekers and marginalized populations in countries around the world. Others focused on legal research and writing, exploring issues that broadened their exposure to international, comparative and foreign law.
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WBRZ 2 ABC — LSU Law, in partnership with the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO), has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to review select cases of incarcerated people who have claims of innocence. The two-year grant establishes the Wrongful Conviction Clinic at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
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