SMU Dedman Law launches COVID-19 legal helpline for North Texas residents

June 9, 2020

SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW — Beginning June 1, SMU Dedman School of Law will launch a clinic project with an emergency helpline that offers North Texas residents the opportunity to secure free legal assistance with matters related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as housing, immigration and consumer protection.

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University of Virginia Law professor Crystal Shin to direct clinic on juvenile defense

June 9, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Crystal Shin ’10 will step down as director of the Program in Law and Public Service to direct a new University of Virginia School of Law clinic. The clinic, which starts this spring and has yet to be formally named, will focus on holistic juvenile defense.

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University of Virginia Law assistant dean Annie Kim expands Public Service Center program

June 9, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — The school’s Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center and Program in Law and Public Service will join forces under one leader, Assistant Dean for Public Service Annie Kim ’99, while adding a new, full-time director of public service to assist in counseling students. The school will also offer more skills-based courses to prepare students for

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Fordham Law Immigration Rights Clinic succeeds in granting green cards for client family

June 1, 2020

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On March 9, 2020, just before Fordham University shut down its campus, a client of Fordham Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC) came to the Law School to pick up an envelope containing green cards for her and her two daughters. The day was over four years in the making.

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University of Michigan Law Innocence Clinic urges state officials to overturn conviction of client

June 1, 2020

WNEM CBS — Temujin Kensu, also known as Fred Freeman, has been in prison for 33 years on a life sentence. The University of Michigan law school’s Innocence Clinic, joined by public figures, has long argued that he was wrongly convicted of killing a man in a Port Huron college parking lot in 1986.

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Northeastern Law Community Business Clinic assists local businesses with pandemic legal aid

June 1, 2020

ITEMLIVE.COM — Jared Nicholson, a clinical professor of law at Northeastern University and member of the Lynn School Committee, has started a “Legal Help Desk for Lynn Small Businesses,” which consists of Northeastern law students providing free legal advice to city businesses.

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Penn Law Institute for Law and Economics hosts virtual Corporate Roundtable

June 1, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL —  Each roundtable takes up current issues that emerge from the research and teaching of the Institute and provides a forum for lively discussion. This spring’s Roundtable, “Securities Intermediation and Technological Changes: Loaning, Owning, & Voting,” was no exception, despite ILE’s moving it to a virtual format.

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Penn Law Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic compiles COVID-19 related resources and information for small businesses

June 1, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (ELC), led by Practice Professor of Law and Dean of Clinical Education Praveen Kosuri, is aiming to fill that gap with a carefully crafted series of frequently asked questions and answershttps://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/10078-entrepreneurship-legal-clinic-compiles-faq-page that matter most to small business owners and entrepreneurs during the pandemic.

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University of St. Thomas Law Appellate Clinic advocates for prisoners’ rights before U.S. Court of Appeals

June 1, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — Third-year students in the University of St. Thomas School of Law Appellate Clinic argued a prisoner civil rights case involving attorney-client confidentiality before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on May 22.

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Texas A&M Law Immigration Rights Clinic petitions for release of medically at-risk detainees

June 1, 2020

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The Texas A&M Immigrant Rights Clinic filed a petition in federal court last Friday demanding that ICE immediately release eleven medically-vulnerable immigrants from the Prairieland Detention Center, where 45 detained individuals have tested positive for COVID-19.

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