Law student volunteers assist small businesses in Pennsylvania with access to pandemic relief programs

August 4, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Small businesses have been hit especially hard during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a group of University of Pennsylvania Carey Law students and recent graduates continue to be “indispensable” to the Pennsylvania 30 Day Fund, an innovative program that provides financial assistance to small businesses during these unprecedented times,…

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A look at Penn Law’s Civil Practice Clinic

August 4, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Students who participate in the Civil Practice Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School quickly discover that attorneys have the power to change their clients’ lives for the better in immediate, tangible ways.

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NYU Law students provide legal assistance to Impact Investment Fund

July 29, 2020

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — Fund makes $25,000 investment in a company whose mission is to engage elementary school aged students in STEM, particularly girls.

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Northeastern Law Community Business Clinic assists small businesses navigate reopening and COVID19 guidelines

July 29, 2020

NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — Hector Plaza and Francheska López-Rivera celebrated the opening of Red City Fitness with much fanfare last August. But seven months later, their Allston-based studio, which offers personal and partner training and group exercise classes, was forced to shutter its doors following Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s orders in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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SMU Law creates student-run helpline providing pandemic related legal advice to the community

July 23, 2020

WFAA 8 ABC — SMU Dedman School of Law is offering free, coronavirus-related legal information through the school’s first ever “helpline.” The law school launched its COVID-19 legal helpline on June 1. Forty-five law students run the helpline under faculty supervision.

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Lewis and Clark Law Earthrise Law Center files lawsuit to protect Maui dolphins

July 22, 2020

LEWIS AND CLARK LAW SCHOOL — On May 21, 2020, Earthrise, and their co-counsel Sea Shepherd Legal, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Sea Shepherd New Zealand and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society challenging the U.S. government’s failure to protect New Zealand’s critically endangered Māui dolphin.

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Penn Law professor David Abrams creates website collecting data on the impact of COVID-19 on crime

July 22, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — David Abrams, Professor of Law, Business Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, has amassed a trove of valuable empirical data on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on crime in the United States at citycrimestats.com.

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A look at the Penn Law Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic

July 22, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Taught by Practice Professor of Law Kara Finck, Lecturer in Law Jennifer Nagda, and Clinical Supervisor of La Puerta Abierta Layla Ware de Luria, the Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic (ICAC) offers University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students the opportunity to help vulnerable young people navigate the legal system using holistic advocacy aimed…

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UCLA Law expands database tracking COVID-19 cases in prison

July 20, 2020

UCLA LAW — The UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, in collaboration with the Bronx Defenders, Columbia Law School’s Center for Institutional and Social Change and Zealous, has launched a new electronic database of COVID-19-related materials designed to help lawyers, advocates, researchers, journalists and others interested in challenging, remedying, or drawing attention to the grave risk…

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Fordham Law McGannon Center receives award to support research on internet access for communities

July 20, 2020

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law’s McGannon Center has received a $50,000 award from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support research into the impact of public communications infrastructure projects, including the WiFi kiosk networks in New York City and Philadelphia. Those specific projects aim to improve internet access to communities who might otherwise…

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