Penn Law celebrates pro bono week
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The 2020 National Celebration of Pro Bono, led by the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, takes places from October 25-31, 2020. This year’s theme is Rising to Meet the Challenge: Pro Bono Response to COVID-19.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students are volunteering their time and skills to ensure the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. With the COVID-19 crisis still pummeling the country, Americans may face more obstacles to exercising the franchise this year than ever before.
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UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Puerto Rico School of Law and its Pro Bono Program are joining the celebration of the Pro Bono Week instituted by the American Bar Association. The University of Puerto Rico School of Law is dubbed Facing the Challenge: Pro bono response to extreme events.
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW — Amidst this year’s pandemic, the scenario will be a bit different. One thing that won’t change this year is the Carrico Center for Pro Bono & Public Service’s partnership with the Lawyers’ Committee, VCET, and Election Protection to connect students with service opportunities surrounding the voting process.
Read More about University of Richmond Law Carrico Center for Pro Bono & Public Service partners on voter protection effortNew William & Mary Law student group recruits election volunteers
WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — If there’s an urgent ring to the name of William & Mary Law School’s new student organization, ASAP, it’s deliberate. With a contentious national election coming up fast, and with endless headlines about problems at the polls during the primaries, students knew that help was needed as soon as possible.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Work or class obligations are among the top barriers to voting faced by students or young people in general, said Campbell Streator, the executive director of EVC National. Student government leaders and national get-out-the-vote organizations want a designated holiday instead and classes replaced with voter engagement efforts.
Read More about Students push universities to cancel classes on election dayA look at American University Washington College of Law’s Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — The student attorneys in the Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and the new Entrepreneurship Law Clinic assist small businesses and nonprofit organizations in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia in the areas of corporate, commercial, and general transactional law.
Read More about A look at American University Washington College of Law’s Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and Entrepreneurship Law ClinicGeorgetown Law Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection publishes voting rights fact sheet
WTOP NEWS — The Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, based at the Georgetown University Law School in D.C., has published a state-by-state series of 50 fact sheets regarding what is and isn’t allowed with regard to gathering inside and outside voting sites.
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TEXAS MONTHLY — One of Grant’s letters had reached the desk of Mike Ware, the executive director of the Innocence Project of Texas (IPTX). Ware teaches at Texas A&M School of Law, in Fort Worth, and once he read Grant’s letter, the professor assigned it to one of the students in his Actual Innocence clinic.
Read More about Texas A&M Law students work on exoneration of Innocence Project of Texas clientWayne Law to launch Community Advocacy Clinic and Immigration Appellate Advocacy Clinic in 2021
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — Wayne State University Law School is expanding its clinical program in winter 2021 to offer a new Community Advocacy Clinic and an Immigration Appellate Advocacy Clinic. Both clinics prioritize the enrollment of part-time students who often work during the day and experience scheduling challenges.
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