Tag: Advocacy
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Others Teach Law, We Teach Justice
“Clients don’t stand a chance.” [1] This was the prevailing sentiment in 1968 amongst forward thinking attorneys who sought to create a program that would improve the quality of justice available to a vast majority of small-claims defendants who could not afford legal representation.[2] Together, they fought for the creation of D.C. Law Students in…
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LSIC Housing Advocacy and Litigation Clinic: Student Attorney Experiences, Lily Wu and Courtney Lutz
Fast paced and constant, that’s the energy within the Landlord Tenant Branch of the DC Superior Court. Lily Wu learned this very quickly during her semester serving as a student attorney in our HALC. On the first day she reported for work, Lily Wu and her colleague, Courtney Lutz, received a significant assignment: to represent…