St. Mary’s Law students provide legal assistance to detainees at family detention centers
LAWDRAGON CAMPUS — Students participating in St. Mary’s Law’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic began their work with detained immigrants when the first family detention centers opened across the Southern border in 2014 in response to a wave of immigrants from Central American countries seeking asylum in the United States.
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ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — Roger Williams Law students gain legal experience helping low-income tenants avoid eviction and forging solutions to Rhode Island’s ongoing housing crisis. This effort is part of the Rhode Island Tenant Stabilization Project, which is aimed at helping low-income tenants who face eviction and possible homelessness.
Read More about Roger Williams Law students provide pro bono legal assistance to low-income tenants who face evictionRoger Williams Law students spent spring breka providing pro bono legal services in Puerto Rico
RHODE ISLAND LAWYERS WEEKLY — Roger Williams Law students spent their spring break traveling to Puerto Rico to make a difference in the Alternative Spring Break Program. The students provided pro bono legal services and got a firsthand look at the country’s access to justice crisis.
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SURF REPORT — Pepperdine Law’s Justice Bus is a mobile legal clinic that takes teams of attorney and law student volunteers from urban areas to set up free legal clinics for low-income Californians living in rural and isolated communities. These clinics provide life-changing legal assistance to low-income veterans, vulnerable seniors, children with disabilities, low-wage workers, immigrant…
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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF LAW — University of Oklahoma Law students provided pro bono services to Oklahoma National Guard men and women recently returning from the Ukraine. These soldiers had been deployed in that region as a part of a rotating U.S. Military Training element.
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — UNC Law students in the Pro Bono Program traveled during their spring break to the North Carolina coast and to Georgia to help clients working to restore their driver licenses as well as detainees seeking bond and parole.
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recognized Law Students Against Sexual and Domestic Violence (LSASDV) for the organization’s work in helping survivors obtain court orders that provide protection from their abusers.
Read More about UNC Law students recognized for work in helping survivors of domestic violenceMississippi Law’s Criminal Appeals Clinic provides students with professional courtroom experience
THE OXFORD EAGLE — Mississippi Law’s Criminal Appeals Clinic law students professional cases in the state of Mississippi, providing them experience in a professional courtroom as well as experience with proper procedure. The real-life experience the clinic provides a student makes the transition to a professional lawyer much easier.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF LAW — Three University of Minnesota Law students worked directly with lawyers on a U.S. Supreme court case that would clarify the limits of imposing political-speech restrictions at polling places. While clerking in the Civil Division of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, 3L students Amy Hang, Theo Heckel, and Jordan…
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF LAW — Amy Hang (’18), a student attorney in the Law School’s Ronald M. Mankoff Tax Clinic, recently won a favorable ruling for clients before the U.S. Tax Court in St. Paul on an issue that usually favors the IRS.
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