Albany Law students selected as Veterans Rights Summer Fellows
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Three Albany Law School students will make an impact on the lives of veterans and their families this summer. Through Albany Law School’s Veterans Rights Summer Fellowship, the students will work with local agencies to advance the legal rights of veterans.
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Every year, Albany Law School celebrates the public interest and pro bono work of the graduating class. The effort is organized by The Justice Center, which administers the pro bono program. The Justice Center also operates the law school’s in-house clinics, which provide free legal services to eligible Capital Region residents and offer…
Read More about Albany Law announces class of 2020 public service hours and honorsBrooklyn Law Pandemic Employment Clinic provides assistance to New Yorkers affected by COVID-19
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Under the supervision of Professor Minna Kotkin, director of the Law School’s Employment Law Clinic, students will have the opportunity to serve clients in the community, particularly freelancers, gig workers, and those not normally eligible for unemployment insurance.
Read More about Brooklyn Law Pandemic Employment Clinic provides assistance to New Yorkers affected by COVID-19UCLA Law Veterans’ Legal Clinic co-publishes advisory on Veterans Administration police practices
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law’s Veterans Legal Clinic has teamed with the National Association of Minority Veterans of America to publish an advisory that outlines police practices and policies on Veterans Administration campuses that create barriers to providing necessary care for veterans.
Read More about UCLA Law Veterans’ Legal Clinic co-publishes advisory on Veterans Administration police practicesUC Irvine Law professor Katharine Tinto to testify before California legislature on prisoner re-entry and employment
UCI LAW — Leading expert in criminal law and procedure, UCI Law Clinical Professor of Law Katharine Tinto will testify, remotely, before the California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety on Tuesday, May 19. Prof. Tinto will testify in support of a bill that would allow formerly incarcerated individuals who have successfully completed Conservation (Fire) Camps while in…
Read More about UC Irvine Law professor Katharine Tinto to testify before California legislature on prisoner re-entry and employmentFordham Law Immigration Rights Clinic succeeds in granting green cards for client family
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On March 9, 2020, just before Fordham University shut down its campus, a client of Fordham Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC) came to the Law School to pick up an envelope containing green cards for her and her two daughters. The day was over four years in the making.
Read More about Fordham Law Immigration Rights Clinic succeeds in granting green cards for client familyUniversity of Michigan Law Innocence Clinic urges state officials to overturn conviction of client
WNEM CBS — Temujin Kensu, also known as Fred Freeman, has been in prison for 33 years on a life sentence. The University of Michigan law school’s Innocence Clinic, joined by public figures, has long argued that he was wrongly convicted of killing a man in a Port Huron college parking lot in 1986.
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ITEMLIVE.COM — Jared Nicholson, a clinical professor of law at Northeastern University and member of the Lynn School Committee, has started a “Legal Help Desk for Lynn Small Businesses,” which consists of Northeastern law students providing free legal advice to city businesses.
Read More about Northeastern Law Community Business Clinic assists local businesses with pandemic legal aidPenn Law Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic compiles COVID-19 related resources and information for small businesses
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (ELC), led by Practice Professor of Law and Dean of Clinical Education Praveen Kosuri, is aiming to fill that gap with a carefully crafted series of frequently asked questions and answershttps://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/10078-entrepreneurship-legal-clinic-compiles-faq-page that matter most to small business owners and entrepreneurs during the pandemic.
Read More about Penn Law Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic compiles COVID-19 related resources and information for small businessesUniversity of St. Thomas Law Appellate Clinic advocates for prisoners’ rights before U.S. Court of Appeals
UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — Third-year students in the University of St. Thomas School of Law Appellate Clinic argued a prisoner civil rights case involving attorney-client confidentiality before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on May 22.
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