University of Miami Law Immigration Clinic files lawsuit over unsafe conditions at South Florida immigration detention facilities

July 30, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — A class action lawsuit of Miami Law’s Immigration Clinic challenging conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic of three South Florida immigration detention jails has settled.

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Notre Dame Law Exoneration Justice Clinic secures exoneration of client

July 30, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME THE LAW SCHOOL — Royer is the first client of Notre Dame Law School’s new Exoneration Justice Clinic to be exonerated.

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Ohio University Law receives gift to create endowed scholarship honoring Judge Thomas Brett

July 30, 2021

OU DAILY — OU received a gift of $2 million from the Mabee Foundation to create an endowed scholarship for students in the College of Law.

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University of the Pacific McGeorge Law launches Military Law Center

July 29, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF PACIFIC  — After surveying its veteran and military-affiliated students, McGeorge is launching a new Military Law Center to support its military-serving and veteran students. The goal is to provide extraordinary service and support to the students attending McGeorge and the other programs on the University of the Pacific’s Sacramento campus.

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A look at Penn Law’s student journals

July 29, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s seven journals, which provide student members an invaluable experience in substantive law as well as skills in research, analysis, and expression.

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University of Virginia Law Innocent Project secures absolute pardon for client

July 29, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — A client of the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law was granted an absolute pardon by Gov. Ralph Northam on Wednesday.

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Yale Law Free Exercise Clinic co-authors brief in support of Amish plaintiffs in US Supreme Court case

July 29, 2021

YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Yale Law School Free Exercise Clinic co-authored an amici curiae brief in support of Amish plaintiffs’ challenge of a law compelling them to use modern septic systems for certain wastewater disposal in violation of their religious beliefs forgoing technology. On July 2, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the plaintiffs and sent the case back to a…

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Lorium Law firm provides virtual internship for law students during the pandemic

July 29, 2021

WPTV NBC — Interns are one on one with attorneys at Lorium Law in Boca Raton, an internship the future lawyers are grateful for, especially due to changes because of the pandemic.

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Lewis & Clark Law Animal Law Litigation Clinic wins lawsuit against USDA over deregulation of slaughterhouses

July 16, 2021

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — With help from dedicated law students, the Animal Law Litigation Clinic has defeated the Government’s motions to dismiss two lawsuits challenging the Government’s deregulation of pig slaughterhouses and its failure to protect downed pigs.

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University of Maine Law student Josh Rosen receives Shur-Frinsko Award for Municipal Law and Local Government

July 16, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Josh Rosen, a rising third year student at the University of Maine School of Law, has been named the recipient of the 2021 Shur-Frinsko Award for Municipal Law and Local Government.

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