Lewis & Clark Law Small Business Legal Clinic provides COVID-19 related legal help and resources

May 14, 2020

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Small Business Legal Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, which provides business transactional legal services to low-income small and emerging businesses in Oregon, has set up one-on-one meetings with attorneys for COVID-19 related issues as well as created a web page for all COVID-19 related general legal information.

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University of Miami Law Startup Practicum assists small businesses with federal loan applications

May 14, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law’s Startup Practicum continues to dig in to help its clients deal with the impact of COVID-19. The first thing the Startup Practicum did was advise its startup clients on the new loan programs created by the CARES Act.

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University of Miami Law Immigration Clinic helps release at-risk detainees

May 14, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — A federal judge ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reduce by hundreds the number of people detained in three Florida detention centers, in response to a lawsuit led by the University of Miami School of Law’s Immigration Clinic.

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Penn Law Global Institute for Human Rights to host online workshop on human rights and the pandemic

May 14, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The Institute is hosted by Cheryl Hardy L’94, the Executive Director of the Law School’s Legal Education Programs and Online Initiatives and led by Rangita de Silva de Alwis, the Associate Dean for International Affairs.

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Penn Law faculty and students assist with lawsuit to protect in at risk prisoners in Philadelphia

May 14, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW — Demonstrating the powerful partnership that can occur between private and public sector lawyers, a class action lawsuit has been brought against the City of Philadelphia on behalf of all medically vulnerable incarcerated people in the Philadelphia county prisons.

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University of Tennessee Law professor Wendy Bach and students assist in researching state eviction laws

May 12, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW — Bach reached out to legal services organizations throughout the state to determine whether students could assist in some way related to eviction law. Her queries led Bach to Professor Katy Ramsey at the University of Memphis who also had eviction law experience.

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Law students discusses experience in clinics during pandemic

May 11, 2020

ABA JOURNAL — Clinical law students across the country face similar situations, and some say their work helping clients remotely is now much different and more difficult because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it comes closer to real-life lawyering than ever before, according to some law professors who direct the clinics.

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University at Buffalo Law’s Veterans Legal Practicum moves online

May 11, 2020

UB NOW — Last month, COVID-19 interrupted this vital in-person work. What to do? The obvious: move online. The practicum has now begun operating its popular help desks through an online portal, using a confidential sign-up inquiry system to offer meetings via Zoom to interested veterans.

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UC Berkeley Law clinics assist California legislation to suspend debt collection

May 11, 2020

UC BERKELEY LAW — Two Berkeley Law clinics played key roles in persuading California to stop intercepting tax refunds, garnishing wages, and levying bank accounts to pay fees owed to state and local governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. State Controller Betty Yee suspended the debt collection on March 27 and the policy went into effect immediately,

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UC Irvine Law professor Richard L. Hasen co-authors report on election security

May 11, 2020

UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Recognizing the need for multifaceted solutions to the issue of the legitimacy and acceptance of fair election results in the United States, Richard L. Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), convened an ad hoc committee made up of a diverse group of leading

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