Indiana Maurer Law’s IP research center offers pro bono legal services, resources to entrepreneurs

July 18, 2016

INDIANA LAWYER – Launched in January 2015, the intellectual property clinic is part of the law school’s Center for Intellectual Property Research. It has offered pro bono legal services to more than 80 inventors, entrepreneurs and small businesses.

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Columbia Law School releases report offering solutions to housing instability for foster care teens

July 18, 2016

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL – The new report offers straightforward solutions to the continuing crisis of housing instability for youth aging out of foster care.

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Harvard Law Veterans Legal Clinic report finds wrongful exclusion of veterans from services

July 18, 2016

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – More than 125,000 veterans who have served since 9/11 are denied access to basic services like health care by the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a report by the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School.

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Valparaiso Law’s immigration clinic wins asylum case

July 18, 2016

NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES – A Tanzanian woman persecuted in her country for being a lesbian has won asylum in the United States, thanks to the Immigration Clinic at Valparaiso University Law School.

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LSU Law graduate wins award from state bar association for public service efforts as student

July 18, 2016

LOUISIANA RECORD – Louisiana’s State Bar Association recently gave its 2016 Law Student Pro Bono Award to a Louisiana State University Law School student.

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Tulane Law alumni and students receive honors from Louisiana State Bar Association for pro bono efforts

July 18, 2016

LOUISIANA RECORD – Tulane University’s school of law has always prized pro bono work and was the first law school in the country to require it to graduate, which helps explain why so many alumni and students were honored by the Louisiana State Bar Association.

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Brooklyn Law School students win fellowships to gain professional experience

July 15, 2016

BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL – The following students join a long list of fellowship awardees from the Law School.

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LSU Law graduate receives outstanding student award from the Clinical Legal Education Association

July 15, 2016

LOUISIANA RECORD – Brittany Holt, a recent graduate of Louisiana State University’s law school, has received the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Outstanding Student Award.

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WVU Law student wins new fellowship to support summer legal aid work

July 15, 2016

WEST VIRGINIA RECORD — This year, [Lisa] Hartline was the inaugural recipient of the Regina Charon Fellowship, which provides a stipend to a West Virginia University College of Law student to spend the summer working at Legal Aid of West Virginia.

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University of Minnesota Law clemency program helps gain release for inmate

July 11, 2016

MINNESOTA DAILY – Law School professor JaneAnne Murray and a group of the school’s students have volunteered to represent inmates preparing applications for reduced sentences.

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