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Dear LSJLC Community,
As the new school year begins, we want to take a moment to reflect on the spirit of collaboration that elevates the work of the Loyola Social Justice Law Clinic beyond case work, building the threads of community resilience and promoting engagement of the next generation of legal advocates.
In this issue, you’ll read about partnerships that underline our belief in holistic solutions and cross-functional initiatives to provide comprehensive legal support and education.
Thank you for your ongoing support in making this work possible.
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Elizabeth Bluestein
Executive Director
Loyola Social Justice Law Clinic
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A new summer internship program offered by the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts (BCLA) connected 17 LMU undergraduates with paid opportunities at the Loyola Social Justice Law Clinic this summer to give students meaningful experiences before they graduate. Students were immersed in the everyday world of each clinic, performing interviews, drafting documents for court filings, reviewing police records and more. Clinic faculty supervised and mentored these students as they acquired skills through casework and educational workshops, building a deeper understanding of the legal system and how it connects community members to actualization of their most basic rights.
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Loyola Collateral Consequences of Conviction Justice Project and LMU Extension Address Barriers to Economic Success for Formerly Justice-Involved Individuals |
The Collateral Consequences of Conviction Justice Project (CCCJP) has partnered with LMU Extension to help formerly justice-involved individuals navigate and overcome legal barriers to employment, thus enhancing outcomes of the LMU Extension’s workforce training and certification programs.
LMU Extension’s Helping Individuals Reenter Employment (HIRE) initiative, supported by the California Workforce Development Board, aims to strengthen economic mobility for formerly incarcerated individuals in LA County by providing training and certification for careers in substance use disorder counseling, paralegal studies, and more. CCCJP’s integration into this initiative enables clinic faculty and students to provide legal support to help eliminate barriers that prevent participants from fully benefiting from workforce opportunities. Of the HIRE Initiative’s 70 participants to date, 32 have been referred to CCCJP for legal support.
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LSJLC Trains Justice Advocates |
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Loyola’s Project for the Innocent (LPI) concluded its 15th summer program intensive experience, which offers undergraduate, high school, and law students across the nation the opportunity to work alongside LPI attorneys on active wrongful conviction cases. This summer’s program, made possible by the Klein Family Foundation, allowed 21 students to learn critical skills in factual investigation that form the foundation of proving wrongful conviction.
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Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic Director Helps Train National Journalists |
As part of Loyola Law School’s annual Journalist Law School, Marissa Montes, ’12, associate clinical professor of law and director of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, spoke about critical legal issues facing immigrants in the United States—as well as beyond its borders. The program offers journalists legal education and training specific to current events to support accurate, nuanced reporting of complex policy decisions and their impact.
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Clinic Faculty Present at AALS’ Largest Conference on Clinical Legal Education in its History |
LSJLC faculty participate annually in one of the biggest gatherings of clinic educators in the country. LSJLC speakers (faculty and staff of the Loyola Justice for Atrocities Clinic, Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, Juvenile Justice Clinic, Youth Justice Education Clinic, and the Juvenile Innocence and Fair Sentencing Clinic, as well as the LSJLC Executive Director) collaborated with faculty and staff at other law school clinics to present on binational clinic work supporting immigrants, family separation, reparations, resilience and more.
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