A look at University of the Pacific McGeorge Law clinic offerings
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC MCGEORGE LAW — The McGeorge School of Law helped eliminate a staggering $162 million of criminal debt in the fall, worked with 80 Afghan refugees trying to remain in the United States and recovered more than $4 million for financial abuse victims. The life-changing legal assistance is the work of students…
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW — As the longest running in-house clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, the Civil Practice Clinic (CPC) puts students on the front lines of increasing access to counsel for some of Philadelphia’s most underserved communities. Certified to provide legal representation in state and federal court, students work…
Read More about A look at the Penn Law Civil Practice ClinicUniversity of Virginia Law State and Local Government Law Clinic proposes mental health reforms for hospitals
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — It’s an everyday problem in many a Virginia emergency room: Someone’s intoxication with drugs or alcohol brings out behavior that looks like a mental health crisis. It’s a problem, too, for Virginia’s badly overcrowded state hospitals. State law says they have to take patients held under a 72-hour temporary detention…
Read More about University of Virginia Law State and Local Government Law Clinic proposes mental health reforms for hospitalsUniversity of Arkansas Law students aid startups at pop-up Pro Bono Clinic
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LAW — Arkansas entrepreneurs received free legal aid from more than 45 volunteer attorneys and U of A law students at a pro bono clinic last month hosted by the U of A School of Law and the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. More than 20 startups were accepted for the event,…
Read More about University of Arkansas Law students aid startups at pop-up Pro Bono ClinicUC Irvine Law professor Katie Tinto and Criminal Justice Clinic help release client from prison
UC IRVINE LAW — UCI Law Professor Katie Tinto and the Criminal Justice Clinic (CJC) at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, secured the release of one of its clients, Don Cunningham, who had been serving a sentence of 277 years to life, and was incarcerated in California state prison for 26 years.…
Read More about UC Irvine Law professor Katie Tinto and Criminal Justice Clinic help release client from prisonStanford Law Organization and Transactions Clinic creates contracts for National Food Bank Network
STANFORD LAW — In a three-year-long project, Stanford Law School’s (SLS) Organizations and Transactions Clinic created a mission-critical suite of contracts for Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger relief organization.
Read More about Stanford Law Organization and Transactions Clinic creates contracts for National Food Bank NetworkCampbell Law Pro Bono Council partners with Duke Law Pro Bono Program on expunction clinic
CAMPBELL LAW — The Campbell Law School Pro Bono Council and the Blanchard Community Law Clinic (BCLC) partnered with the Pro Bono Program at Duke Law School and Pisgah Legal Services to host a criminal record expunction clinic in Western North Carolina over the law school’s Spring Break. A total of 18 law students —…
Read More about Campbell Law Pro Bono Council partners with Duke Law Pro Bono Program on expunction clinicUniversity of Florida Law student Morgan LaRosa discusses participating in the Elder Law Clinic
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LAW — Morgan LaRosa, a third-year law student at UofL, has participated in the Trager-Brandeis Elder Law Clinic since its inception in spring of 2022. A partnership of the University of Louisville Trager Institute and the Brandeis School of Law, the clinic provides free estate planning services to underserved clients. Staffed by…
Read More about University of Florida Law student Morgan LaRosa discusses participating in the Elder Law ClinicA look at University of Virginia Law Decarceration Clinic
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — At one of about a dozen tables, students from the University of Virginia School of Law were meeting with the recently decarcerated, surveying them about their most pressing needs to identify ways the students in the school’s Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic could help them tackle the issues that can…
Read More about A look at University of Virginia Law Decarceration ClinicWashington & Lee Law professor David Baluarte awarded Fulbright to develop clinical programs in Mexico
WASHINGTON & LEE LAW — Washington and Lee law professor David Baluarte has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant that will take him to Iberoamericana University (IBERO) in Mexico City, where he will teach in the Refugee Law Clinic and assist in the development of clinical legal education more broadly at the University.
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