Texas A&M Law veteran’s clinic students secure disability benefits for client
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY — Texas A&M University School of Law clinic client, Carlos Gonzalez, is a Gulf War disabled veteran who, in 2017, filed for full disability benefits. The claim was filed in March 2019 and was approved in May.
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THE CRIMSON WHITE — The University of Alabama Law hosted the Susan B. Livingston Boot Camp for Success, which is an initiative to provide incoming law students from diverse backgrounds the preparation they need for law school.
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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY — Arizona State University Law’s First Amendment Clinic wins argument to unseal the investigation documents to the Scott Warren case. Ryan Bailey, one of the clinic’s students, played a key role by delivering the oral argument.
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CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW — A joint team of students from the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project and the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic (INRC) successfully overturned Somali immigrant, Abdi’s, illegal detainment.
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LSAC — A student-developed online tool to help increase access to justice for immigrant domestic violence survivors has won first place in the Law School Admission Council’s inaugural Justice Innovation Challenge, which focuses on addressing community legal needs. Pocket VAWA Self-Petitions, a project by Columbia Law School student Emilie Schwarz, received the honor, along with…
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THE RED & BLACK — The New Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion program was initially a larger scale, university-wide initiative announced by UGA President Jere Morehead in spring 2019. The funds encouraged schools within UGA to “recruit and retain historically underrepresented groups,” which resulted in the law school’s Benham Scholars program, which is dedicated to increasing…
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS — Georgia State Law’s Pro Bono Law Program is partnering with The Justice Collaborative and Georgia Lawyers for the Arts (GLA) this year to offer law students more practice opportunities. Volunteers can sign up for both organizations—and 10 other projects– on the College of Law website. The College of Law’s award-winning…
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PENNSTATE DICKINSON LAW — Lucy Johnston-Walsh, director of the Children’s Advocacy Clinic at Penn State’s Dickinson Law, was a key player in advocating for the creation of a program to offer support, resources and guidance to foster youths at the University. The result is the Fostering Lions program, which proactively works with county agencies that work…
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LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW — 126 LSU Law students participated in the Summer Field Placement Program this year. The students were placed with judges, government agencies and nonprofit organizations across the United States—from California to Florida and Michigan to Texas—earning credits while gaining invaluable hands-on experience.
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KSHB CHANNEL 41 NEWS — Students from Sean O’Brien’s (University of Missouri-Kansas Law) courses worked directly on the case of Ricky Kidd. O’Brien and his students proved Kidd’s innocence, and he was released from prison earlier this month.
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