OSU Moritz Law’s Entrepreneurial Business Law Clinic helps over 100 businesses

October 3, 2016

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW – Founded in 2012 through the generous support of donors, the Entrepreneurial Business Law clinic at the Moritz College of Law offers 12 students each semester the opportunity to help startups establish their businesses and put in place governance and contractual protections needed to advance these new companies.

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Penn State Law’s Civil Rights Appellate Clinic files amicus brief in First Circuit case

October 3, 2016

PENN STATE LAW – Students in Penn State Law’s Civil Rights Appellate Clinic filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First Circuit supporting the claims of disenfranchised African American officers at the Boston Police Department that they were adversely affected by hair follicle drug testing that generated false positives indicating…

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Penn State Law’s Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic win two appeals

October 3, 2016

PENN STATE LAW – The Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic won appellate victories for two separate clients before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) in Washington, D.C. In both CAVC appeals, law students analyzed documents in large appellate records. After reviewing the records, law students interviewed the clients, researched the legal issues,…

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Northwestern Pritzker Law students gain exposure to restorative justice practices

October 3, 2016

NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW – The Restorative Justice practicum—where students work twelve hours per week at organizations in the community and meet weekly as a group for a corresponding seminar—is an expansion of the Center on Negotiation and Mediation’s offerings related to restorative justice, a practice that focuses on repairing harm.

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Mitchell Hamline student helps prevent woman from becoming homeless

October 3, 2016

MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW – 3L Mitchell Hamline student, Kaitlyn Stamson, filed government documents and negotiated with insurance carriers over disability claims on behalf of a 38-year-old St. Paul woman, who was developmentally disabled.

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Mitchell Hamline students file legal brief in Supreme Court patent case

October 3, 2016

MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW – A group of Mitchell Hamline students filed a legal brief in a patent case taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, giving them a type of real-world experience available to only a handful of law students across the country.

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Mitchell Hamline law students create new scholarship for Hybrid Program

October 3, 2016

MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW – A group of students in Mitchell Hamline’s Hybrid Program have thrown their support behind the new George Vaughn scholarship, named after an African American attorney who earned his J.D. as a part-time student and went on to argue the landmark case, Shelley v. Kraemer, before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948.

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LSU Law student receives 2016 CLEA Outstanding Student Award for work in two clinics

October 3, 2016

LSU LAW CENTER – Louisiana State University Law Center student Brittany Holt ’16 is the recipient of the 2016 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Outstanding Student Award for her work in both the Juvenile Defense Clinic and the Parole Assistance and Reentry Clinic.

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Two Hofstra Law students receive 2016 CLEA Outstanding Student Award

October 3, 2016

HOFSTRA LAW NEWS – 2L students, Dean Ferdenzi and Adam Solomon, are Hofstra Law’s co-recipients of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Outstanding Student Award for their work in the Disaster Recovery Clinic.

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Harvard Law student reflects on public service fellowship experience in Thailand

October 3, 2016

HARVARD LAW TODAY – Harvard law student, Michael Jung ’18, wrote about his experience working with UNICEF in Bangkok, Thailand, researching and gaining an overview of the current and future landscape of juvenile justice in the region.

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