Florida Law students work on public school reform in state
FLA LAW ONLINE – The involvement of UF Law students in the public interest-oriented work of Southern Legal Counsel has proven to be a mutually beneficial partnership, allowing students to gain practical legal experience while contributing to social justice litigation that seeks to protect and promote the constitutional and human rights of vulnerable communities.
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CBS NEWS – Along with traditional student-run legal clinics, which serve groups like military veterans and low-income families, more law schools are opening clinics that aim to help startups off the ground, especially those created on campus.
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WEST VIRGINIA RECORD – Kirk Auvil and Phillip Wachowiak, both third-year students, represented Rufino Antonio Estrada-Martinez before the court Sept. 24, against Loretta Lynch, attorney general of the United States. Estrada-Martinez is a client of the WVU Immigration Law Clinic.
Read More about West Virginia Law clinic students argue federal immigration case in ChicagoEmory Law humanitarian law clinic gives students hands-on experience in the “law of war”
EMORY NEWS CENTER – This work, done as part of Emory’s International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Clinic, gave students the chance to get hands-on experience working on real cases, research projects, and training programs for courts, militaries, NGOs, and other groups that focus on understanding, applying, and upholding the law of war.
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OC WEEKLY – “As if a mantra, Shin repeatedly drew in his mind the picture he’d paint of his client, a 59-year-old Korean immigrant the U.S. government wanted to deport. He also mapped out the various rebuttals he expected the judge would throw back.”
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NWI.COM – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently took action against the nation’s two largest debt buyers and collectors for using deceptive tactics to collect bad debts. The Law Clinic at Valparaiso University has been fighting the same battle locally, representing more than 100 defendants in Porter County and resulting in dismissals of more than $250,000…
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DAILY LOCAL NEWS – The summer program culminated with a reception held at the Chester County Bar Association where the students shared their experience with all those in attendance.
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WASHBURN REVIEW – Washburn University School of Law made an expungement program available to veterans who believe their prior convictions are null and void.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF LAW – On September 3, 2015, Clinical Professor David Calder, Director of the Child Advocacy Clinic, hosted a presentation at the UM School of Law by Victor Vieth, Director of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center in Minnesota, who explained recommended improvements in child protection.
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HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN – Earlier this summer, 27 people converged on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s William H. Bowen School of Law to meet with attorneys at Arkansas’s first transgender legal clinic.
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