Mississippi law students adapt to online classes and challenging job market
MISSISSIPPI BUSINESS JOURNAL — The decision to move the Ole Miss Law School classes online was made during spring break, which was extended by a week to make the switch beginning March 23. “The big push was to get the faculty trained and get them to where they felt comfortable” with the new online course management…
Read More about Mississippi law students adapt to online classes and challenging job marketUniversity of Akron Law student Briana Vamosi creates website to connect elderly and vulnerable residents to food services
AKRON BEACON JOURNAL — Vamosi said she heard about an effort created by classmates at Cincinnati that links volunteers with those unable to venture out of their homes to get groceries or run other errands. With a little help from them, Vamosi set up a similar webpage for the Akron-Canton area at https://akronmatch.wixsite.com/mysite.
Read More about University of Akron Law student Briana Vamosi creates website to connect elderly and vulnerable residents to food servicesAlbany Law student Jordan Fruchter creates calculator to empower tenants in court
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — His revised solution: A computer program called the H.A.R.M. calculator (Habitability, Abatement of Rent, Mathematical), which he designed to automatically compute reasonable damages based on monthly rent; how long the issue has gone on; and the percentage of rent abated for the particular issue in prior housing-related court cases.
Read More about Albany Law student Jordan Fruchter creates calculator to empower tenants in courtUniversity at Buffalo Law Veterans Legal Practicum moves online
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW — 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.
Read More about University at Buffalo Law Veterans Legal Practicum moves onlineUC Irvine Law student Emily Genzlinger receives Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award
UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Emily Genzlinger, a 3L at the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law), has been selected for a 2020 Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award. She is one of only eight law students selected for the award — chosen from more than 125 applicants, Emily was selected for her…
Read More about UC Irvine Law student Emily Genzlinger receives Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest AwardUC Irvine Law students provide pro bono legal services during crisis
UCI NEWS — The COVID-19 pandemic has awakened a vigorous spirit of public service in countless people across the globe. For UCI Law students, however, the urge to serve the most vulnerable is far from new.
Read More about UC Irvine Law students provide pro bono legal services during crisisUCLA 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…
Read More about UCLA Law clinic students participate in lawsuit seeking to protect at-risk prisoners during pandemicUniversity of Cincinnati Law’s Ohio Innocence Project helps free wrongfully convicted man
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…
Read More about University of Cincinnati Law’s Ohio Innocence Project helps free wrongfully convicted manUniversity of Cincinnati Law’s Ohio Innocence Project helps free wrongfully convicted client after 46 years in prison
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.
Read More about University of Cincinnati Law’s Ohio Innocence Project helps free wrongfully convicted client after 46 years in prisonA look at the Korey Wise Innocence Project at University of Colorado Law
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.
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