Vanderbilt Law students use web tool to help indigent patients access free legal services
VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL — Law students in the Vanderbilt Legal Aid Society are using a tool developed by the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services to help patients at the Shade Tree Clinic access free legal services. The Shade Tree Clinic, which is staffed and run by students at Vanderbilt Medical School, provides free health screenings…
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TULANE UNIVERSITY — Tulane Law will celebrate National Pro Bono Week commemorating the 30th anniversary of the school’s Pro Bono Program. As the first law school to require law-related service in the public interest, students have donated more than 600,000 hours of legal assistance to the New Orleans community and around the globe.
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TULANE UNIVERSITY — Tulane Law 3L student Kirby Kenny will receive the 2018 Louisiana State Bar Association Law Student Pro Bono Award for her work on behalf of indigent clients. Kenny, who has donated 744 hours of free legal work during her three years as a law student, will receive the award at the Louisiana…
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TULANE UNIVERSITY — Tulane Law 3L student Andrew Taylor published an article in Environmental Law Reporter, a major environmental law periodical. Taylor’s article analyzes Union of Concerned Scientists v. Pruitt by providing relevant background information and then examining the four specific claims put forth in the suit.
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TULANE UNIVERSITY — Barry Williams walked out of prison 41 years after he was convicted at the age of 17 of second-degree murder in a botched robbery that left an elderly woman dead. Tulane Law’s Criminal Justice Clinic argued in multiple state courts and ultimately appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed that Williams should…
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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — Texas Law students spent the last week of winter break on Texas Law’s ninth annual Pro Bono in January trip to the Texas Rio Grande Valley organized by Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program, providing 1650 hours of free legal assistance to low-income residents and legal nonprofits.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — Texas Law’s INCLUDE Project had a busy fall providing individualized counseling and direct legal services to more than one hundred persons with disabilities. Through the Supported Decision Making initiative, law students counsel young adults with vision impairment on alternatives to guardianship.
Read More about Texas Law students provide counseling and direct legal services to persons with disabilitiesStanford Law student reflect on the criminalization of poverty during alternative spring break trip
STANFORD LAWYER — Stanford Law 2L student Faaris (Fares) Akremi shares his reflection volunteering at ArchCity Defenders in St. Louis, Missouri as part of a Spring 2017 Alternative Spring Break trip.
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SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — Southwestern Law’s Pro Bono Removal Defense Program and Public Service Programs invited students to an overnight volunteer program in Tijuana, Mexico, to assist asylum-seekers with the process to apply for U.S. asylum.
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Students in Southern Illinois University Law’s Illinois Innocence Project helped a client get acquitted. William Amor, who was accused of murder and aggravated arson, received a 7-day bench trial. After spending 22 years in prison, the trial ended with a not guilty verdict.
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