Domestic violence clinic at Valparaiso Law offers hope to victims and their families
NWITIMES.COM – The Domestic Violence Clinic is a licensed law firm that enables students to gain experience while providing free or low-cost legal services to clients. Students assist victims of domestic violence who are seeking temporary or permanent restraining orders.
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AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN – Hines and Gilman are among the chief architects of a network of lawyers, legal assistants, students and volunteers who work on immigrants’ cases for free at the two family detention centers that opened in the summer of 2014 in South Texas.
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WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL – Students from Wake Forest University’s School of Law, working with Judge Denise Hartsfield of Forsyth District Court and supporting attorneys from the Forsyth County Bar Association, hold clinics monthly to help people determine if they qualify to have certain crimes removed from their records.
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA – Though this is typically tax season, South Dakotans can receive legal advice year-round for tax disputes with the IRS at the state’s only Federal Tax Clinic at the University of South Dakota’s School of Law.
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THE CHICAGO MAROON – Last month, Eugene Haywood, a client of the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, received clemency from President Barack Obama. Haywood’s release came after he served 14 years of a mandatory sentence of life without parole for a nonviolent drug crime.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY – “Community Enterprise Project of the Transactional Law Clinics” allows HLS students to help small business owners, entrepreneurs, and community groups create businesses, obtain permits and licenses, and negotiate contracts and other transactional (non-litigation) services.
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NEWS FROM TULANE – In addition to hosting competitors on the Tulane University uptown campus from dozens of law schools across the country to argue baseball salaries before industry pros, the society invited young members of Major League Baseball’s New Orleans Urban Youth Academy to the arbitration finals on Jan. 22.
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HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – As Congress prepares to consider the 2016 child nutrition act, the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic released a policy brief recommending changes to the act to support healthy school meals.
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WNCN (RALEIGH) – A visually impaired law student is reaching out for help after learning her guide dog needs major surgery. Now friends, classmates, and the entire Campbell Law School Community are stepping up to help.
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THE OBSERVER – Case Western Reserve University School of Law recently received $131,169 to create a human trafficking law clinic.
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