UCLA Law clinic students participate in lawsuit seeking to protect at-risk prisoners during pandemic
UCLA LAW — Members of three UCLA School of Law clinics are part of a coalition including people who are incarcerated in Los Angeles County jails, lawyers and activists that has sued the county and county sheriff’s department seeking the release of medically vulnerable people and the implementation of heightened health and safety standards in jails…
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UC NEW — The Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) at the UC College of Law, took up the case of the Cincinnati man convicted in 2008 of armed robbery and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Michele Berry Godsey, a 2006 UC College of Law alumnus and former OIP participant, represented Smith both at his original trial in Hamilton County…
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UC NEWS — Andrews, now 82, thought he’d die in prison. But on Wednesday, nearly 46 years after he was incarcerated, he finally walked out of prison a free man, thanks to the tireless work of law students, professors and attorneys at the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW — The weekend of May 31, 2019, started out normally for Anne-Marie Moyes, director of the Korey Wise Innocence Project (KWIP) at Colorado Law. She caught up with volunteers, reviewed applications, and made a few calls.
Read More about A look at the Korey Wise Innocence Project at University of Colorado LawFordham Law hosts training webinar on online sexual harassment in the workplace
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — The online discussion, hosted by Fordham Workers’ Rights Advocates on April 28, provided an overview about sexual harassment law—specifically what employees’ rights are and what an employee should consider when reporting an incident. Students asked questions regarding the current status of filing complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and how…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Erika McDonald, a third-year University of Houston Law Center student, was the recipient of the National Order of the Scribes Award at the virtual Dean’s Ceremony on April 21.
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LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD — The Advance Care Planning Clinic will help workers complete documents, including general durable power of attorney for health care and/or financial decisions, health care directives/living wills, and last will and testament for low-income and low-asset estates, according to the law school’s Monday news release.
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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 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 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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