Clinical Law Prof Blog

JOBS: UC Irvine Environmental Justice Clinic Fellowships

Via Prof. Michael Robinson-Dorn: 

Two Fellowship positions in the UC Irvine Environmental Justice Clinics: 

UC Irvine School of Law: Environmental Law Clinical Fellow

DESCRIPTION

The University of California, Irvine School of Law invites applications for the position of Clinical Fellow in its Environmental Law Clinic (ELC). The fellowship is designed to provide an attorney who has a strong interest in environmental law with mentorship and experience to help the attorney launch a career in clinical teaching, or to serve as a bridge to a career in public interest environmental law.

UCI Law enjoys a dynamic clinical program that is ranked highly on nationwide surveys. The ELC is one of several core clinics at UC Irvine that meet the School of Law’s clinical requirement. Under close supervision, ELC students advise and represent organizational clients on a wide range of environmental justice and environmental law issues focused on the protection and conservation of human health and ecosystems. The nature of the ELC’s projects varies depending on client need, appropriateness of project for clinical teaching, student and faculty interest, and resource availability, but projects will likely include a mix of advocacy, counseling, and policy matters in multiple fora.

Working with the Director, the ELC Fellow will mentor and work closely with students in the representation of ELC clients and will participate in program development including community lawyering and outreach. The ELC Fellow will also have opportunities for teaching within the ELC, including assisting with the teaching of the ELC seminar. The current ELC Fellow’s work has been divided roughly evenly between environmental justice and natural resource matters.

The ELC Fellow is expected to be a vital part not only of the ELC, but also of the UCI Clinical Law Program, and the law faculty’s intellectual life more generally. As such, the ELC Fellow will receive mentoring, and can expect support in terms of career development.

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates for the position must have:
(1) a J.D. from an A.B.A.-accredited law school (3+ years’ experience preferred);
(2) a strong interest in working on environmental law and/or environmental justice matters;
(3) superior written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills;
(4) the ability to think imaginatively and critically about approaches to environmental law and/or environmental justice problems;
(5) the ability to work collaboratively with students, faculty, and staff;
(6) a strong work ethic, and demonstrated understanding of the applicable ethical rules; and
(7) the ability to juggle multiple competing priorities and meet firm deadlines.
Additionally, the candidate should possess a record of exceptional academic success in law school.

NATURE OF THE APPOINTMENT
The ELC Fellow will report to the Environmental Law Clinic Director, and work closely ELC students, and another clinical Fellow. The position is a full time and may be extended to a period not to exceed 2 years.
Salary is up to $80,000/yr. depending on experience. The ELC Fellow will be eligible for UC benefits.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Apply link: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06894

Document requirements

Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Inclusive Excellence Activities Statement - Statement addressing how past and/or potential contributions to inclusive excellence will advance UCI's Commitment to Inclusive Excellence. See our guidance for writing an inclusive excellence activities statement.
• A writing sample
• A complete law school transcript
Reference requirements

3 required (contact information only)
Apply link: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06894

Campus Information
The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy.

 

 

UC Irvine School of Law: Mysun Foundation Clinical Fellow (Environmental Justice)

Mysun Foundation Clinical Fellow, Environmental Law Clinic in the School of Law: To apply: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06893.

DESCRIPTION

The University of California, Irvine School of Law invites applications for the position of Mysun Foundation Clinical Fellow in its Environmental Law Clinic (ELC). The fellowship is designed to provide an attorney who has a strong interest in environmental justice with mentorship to help the attorney to launch a career in clinical teaching, or serve as a bridge to a career in public interest environmental justice work.

UCI Law enjoys a dynamic clinical program, ranked highly on nationwide surveys. The ELC is one of several core clinics at UC Irvine that meet the School of Law’s clinical requirement. The nature of the ELC’s environmental justice projects varies depending on client need, appropriateness of project for clinical teaching, student and faculty interest, and resource availability, but projects will likely include a mix of advocacy, counseling, and policy matters in multiple fora.

Working alongside the ELC Director, the Mysun Foundation Clinical Fellow will mentor and work closely with students in the representation of disenfranchised and marginalized communities, and will participate in program development including community lawyering and outreach. The Mysun Foundation Clinical Fellow will also have opportunities for teaching within the ELC, including assisting with the teaching of the ELC seminar.

The Mysun Foundation Clinical Fellow is expected to be a vital part not only of the ELC, but also of the UCI Clinical Law Program, and the law school’s intellectual life more generally. As such, the Mysun Foundation Clinical Fellow will receive mentoring, and can expect support in terms of career development.

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates for the position must have:
(1) a J.D. from an A.B.A.-accredited law school, (3+ years of experience preferred);
(2) a strong interest in working on environmental justice issues;
(3) strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills, including experience working with people from diverse backgrounds ;
(4) the ability to think imaginatively and critically about approaches to environmental justice problems;
(5) the ability to work collaboratively with students, faculty, and administrators;
(6) the ability to work collaboratively with community groups, environmental justice communities, and environmental justice organizations;
(7) a strong work ethic, and demonstrated understanding of the applicable ethical rules; and;
(8) the ability to juggle multiple competing priorities and meet firm deadlines.

NATURE OF THE APPOINTMENT

The position is a full time, twelve-month staff appointment, with the possibility of extension for an additional year, but not to exceed 2 years total. The Mysun Foundation Clinical Fellow will report to the ELC Director.
Salary is up to $80,000/yr. depending on experience. The Mysun Foundation Clinical Fellow will be eligible for UC benefits.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

All applicants must submit a cover letter, a statement of interest describing their background and specific interest in the Fellowship, Inclusive Excellence Activities Statement addressing how past and/or potential contributions to diversity will advance UCI's Commitment to Inclusive Excellence, a list of three references, a writing sample, and a resume or curriculum vitae using UC Irvine’s on-line application system, RECRUIT, located at: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06893

Application Requirements
Document requirements

Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Inclusive Excellence Activities Statement - Statement addressing how past and/or potential contributions to inclusive excellence will advance UCI's Commitment to Inclusive Excellence. See our guidance for writing an inclusive excellence activities statement.
Statement of Interest in Environmental Justice Issues and this Fellowship
A writing sample
A complete law school transcript
Reference requirements

3 required (contact information only)
Apply link: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06893

Campus Information
The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy.

Campbell Law recipient of the CLEA Outstanding Externship Student Award

Via Prof. Niya Fonville: 

The Campbell Law announcement of Lupe Howell as its recipient of the CLEA Outstanding Externship Student award: 

 

Lupe Howell ’21 has been named Campbell Law’s 2020-2021 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Outstanding Externship Student, announced Director of Externships Niya Fonville.

“Our students worked tirelessly to meet the demands of supervisors, clients and the class component this past year,” Fonville explained. “In acknowledgement of the valuable work externships provide, CLEA, the leading national group of experiential learning professionals, launched the CLEA Outstanding Externship Student Award this year.”

Each law school was permitted to nominate a 3L student. Recipients must have demonstrated excellence in both the field work and seminar components of the course, as evidenced by 1) the quality of representing clients or engaging in advocacy or policy reform and 2) the level of thoughtfulness and self-reflection in exploring issues raised in their placement (i.e. legal, ethical, strategic, etc.).

An excerpt from Fonville’s nomination of Howell follows:

“Placed in the Wake County District Attorney’s office, her supervisor states it best: ‘[Lupe] learned to quickly assess cases, facts, and statutes, while still making time to address the individual stakeholders of each case and make them feel valued. Lupe was an excellent team member and was always willing to jump in and help wherever help was needed.’ In class, Lupe’s reflective papers were thoughtful and intentional. I witnessed the evolution of her professional identity. As the immigrant of a country where trust in the government and law enforcement is lacking, her experience with the DA resulted in a shift in her perspective of responsibility and privilege of prosecutors. She also saw ways that she could serve historically under-supported citizens and still carry out her job as an ADA. Finally, she found ways to use opportunities to engage her family (including her small children) in optional assignments of attending programming and events…aimed at enhancing students’ understanding of the legal process and history of the legal system. Lupe herself sums up her experience best by stating: ‘This semester has been so full of personal growth that I don’t recognize myself anymore. I feel competent and confident in my ability to stand before a judge and argue my position without hesitation. If my 18-year-old self were to see me in a courtroom, I would not recognize myself. Confidence, poise, and articulation. All things I dreamed I would one day have, somehow came from one internship position…”

Externships 11 at Pepperdine Caruso and UCLA, Feb. 18-20, 2022

Pepperdine Caruso School of Law and UCLA School of Law are proud to announce that we will jointly host the Externships 11 Conference February 18th - 20th, 2022. Participants will have the opportunity to spend time in Southern California on both campuses. The Externships 11 Conference will provide an exceptional opportunity for externship faculty and administrators from across the nation to convene after more than a year of distanced collaboration and share best practices and innovations.

Pepperdine Caruso School of Law provides well-established, extensive externship programs through the Clinical Education Program, Global Programs, and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution that continually strive to expand and improve. Students enrolled in these programs participate in diverse externships from the Malibu campus, the Washington DC Externship Semester, the London program, and other international initiatives.

UCLA School of Law’s Externship Program places hundreds of students annually at placements across Greater Los Angeles, from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to the Sundance Institute to the ACLU, as well as in Washington D.C. and the Hague. Students participate in seminars organized by practice area alongside their placements in order to deepen their reflection and their commitment to doing ethical, excellent legal work.

Please save the date and make plans to join us in Los Angeles and Malibu next year. More information, RFPs and details will be forthcoming throughout the year.

Co-Editor Priya Baskaran receives ABA Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award

Via Prof. Jayesh Rathod:

Professor Priya Baskaran, director of the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at American University Washington College of Law and co-editor of this Clinical Law Prof Blog, has received the Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award (Academic category) from the ABA Business Law Section’s Nonprofit Organizations Committee. 

Here is part of the ABA’s press release, describing Priya’s impressive contributions that formed the basis for the award.  The full press release is available here. 

  

Outstanding Academic Award – for distinguished academic achievement in the nonprofit sector: Priya Baskaran, Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

Priya Baskaran is an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic (ELC) at American University Washington College of Law. Professor Baskaran is the founder and current director of the ELC, which provides free transactional legal services to organizations dedicated to economic justice and revitalization in greater Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the faculty at American University Washington College of Law, Professor Baskaran was an Associate Professor at West Virginia University College of Law where she taught in the Business Law curriculum and served as the Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Law Clinic (EILC). Professor Baskaran has dedicated her teaching career to furthering economic justice in both urban and rural communities through transactional law. In West Virginia, she launched a novel program to address access to justice barriers faced by nonprofits and community organizations. Professor Baskaran partnered with Legal Aid of West Virginia to train transactional pro-bono attorneys and expand legal services across the state. As part of this collaboration Professor Baskaran provided ongoing training for Legal Aid attorneys on nonprofit organizations and relevant tax regulations. She also served as co-counsel for cases, assisting Legal Aid attorneys in more complex representations. In addition to her work with rural communities, Professor Baskaran also taught in the Social Enterprise & Nonprofit Law Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center where she was a Visiting Professor and Supervising Attorney. Professor Baskaran previously worked as a Staff Attorney for the Community and Economic Development Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, where she provided transactional legal services to community-based organizations, non-profits, and small businesses in the City of Detroit.

Professor Baskaran’s publication and advocacy record reflects her passion for pursuing economic justice through transactional lawyering. She has written extensively on using transactional law and social enterprise to further economic justice. She has also worked closely with nonprofit organizations advocating for economic enfranchisement of returning citizens, including testifying before the West Virginia State Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. As a teacher, Professor Baskaran encourages her students to embrace opportunities to facilitate change and support the public interest through transactional lawyering. She reminds students that such opportunities are not just limited to public interest careers, but through meaningful pro-bono engagements available to all attorneys—including those in traditional corporate practice.

Memphis recipients of the CLEA Outstanding Clinical Student and Extern Award

Via Prof. Danny Schaffzin from the post by the University of Memphis clinical faculty: 

 

The faculty of the University of Memphis School of Law Clinic and Externship Courses have selected Alexia Butler (’21) as the CLEA Outstanding Clinic Student and Malik Luckett (’21) as the CLEA Outstanding Externship Student for the 2020-21 academic year.  

 

Professor Donna Harkness, Director of the Elder Law Clinic, detailed Alexia Butler’s many contributions as an Elder Clinic and Advanced Elder Law Clinic student:

 

As a qualified law student in the Elder Law Clinic during the fall 2020 semester, Alexia represented elderly indigent clients in matters ranging from wills to a real property tort dispute to enforcement of a marital dissolution agreement post-divorce. Each matter required her to engage in detailed factual investigation and review of past records, as well as legal research in pursuit of creative solutions to what often appeared to be intractable problems. As an Advanced Elder Law Clinic student during the spring 2021 semester, Alexia delved into the issue of isolation and lack of access to legal services among elderly residents of long term care facilities that had surfaced during the pandemic. She created a “Long Term Care and the Pandemic” survey and distributed it to various providers engaged in long term care to determine how the issue of access to justice was perceived by providers and discovered that while providers felt that access was sufficient, none could pinpoint just exactly what access was available at their own facilities. This finding led her to design enhanced community education materials relating to resident rights and access to legal services, and finally, to reach out to the local Memphis Bar Association Access to Justice Committee for additional support and examination of the issue, which they have agreed to do. In short, she has been an invaluable asset to the Elder Law Clinic program during this academic year, and her efforts are expected to continue to have an impact following her graduation. 

 

Adjunct Professor Shawn McCarver, who teaches the Externship Course’s classroom seminar, described Malik Luckett’s standout performance in two field placements:

 

Malik Luckett has earned this recognition as the CLEA Externship Student of the Year at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Malik completed two externships during the 2020-21 academic year, the first at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee during the fall semester and the second in the chambers of the Honorable Judge Mark Norris of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee during the spring semester. Malik consistently received fabulous assessments from his field supervisors and colleagues in both placements. On the classroom side of the Externship Course, all of Malik's work and class contributions were outstanding.

Loyola New Orleans Recipient for the CLEA Outstanding Clinic Team Award

Via Prof. Davida Finger: 

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice named Elizabeth K. Fox and Sarah J. Flettrich as the CLEA Outstanding Clinic Team. They were supervised by Professor Ramona Fernandez. 

Elizabeth (Beth) K. Fox and Sara J. Flettrich (Team Kinnett) are deserving of this award because of their outstanding clinic work in the Children’s Rights section of the clinic, supervised by Professor Ramona G. Fernandez.

Both, Beth and Sarah are student practitioners who possess the professionalism, work ethic, intellect, and skills to be a great, ethical and compassionate attorney. In the pursuit of social justice, they have truly done an outstanding job in representing indigent clients in paternity, custody, continuing tutorship, child support, divorce, succession cases and drafting Wills and Power of Attorneys for elderly people in the community. Both of these women represented their clients in status conferences, pre-trials, hearings, and trials. Beth is the lead attorney in a case challenging the constitutionality of La. C.C. Art. 198. This case will have significant impact in future Louisiana cases. They wrote the appellate brief and presented oral argument before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal where we had a favorable decision. The case was remanded. The case is now before the Louisiana State Supreme Court and Beth and Sarah, have written an original brief and two reply briefs. The case was set for oral argument before the Louisiana Supreme Court on May 11, 2021 and the students argued on behalf of the minor child.

Team Kinnet, has worked tirelessly not only on the appellate case, but also on several other individual cases. These two ladies found a ways to effectively work together and collaborate to get positive results for their clients. During the academic year, Team Kinnett logged in over one thousand two (1,200) hundred hours, while Beth was caring for her young son and recently a newborn and Sarah held a clerkship in a family law firm.

 

Mitchell Hamline recipient of the CLEA Outstanding Clinic Student

Via Prof. Brad Colbert: 

Each year the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) invites law schools to name outstanding clinical students and externs from their programs. This year Claire Beyer, from the LAMP and Reentry Clinics, received the award from Mitchell Hamline.

Here’s how Professors Geffen and Colbert described Ms. Beyer’s work:

Ms. Beyer has done an excellent job representing several clients in a wide range of cases. She represented several clients in expungement cases where she has been able to expunge her clients criminal records, enabling them to better reenter the community. Through her incredible hard work and diligence, the County has essentially rolled over, agreeing to every single one of our requests. Ms. Beyer also worked in our COVID release clinic where she helped people apply for conditional medical release, literally saving lives. Ms. Beyer has done her share of tilting at windmills, as happens with our clinics, but she has done so with enthusiasm, expertise, and a sense of humor.

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles recipient of the CLEA Outstanding Clinic Student

Via Prof. Elizabeth Bluestein: 

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles nominated Sarah Kwon for the CLEA Outstanding Clinic award; she who participated in both the Youth Justice Education Clinic and the Collateral Consequences of Conviction Project: 

Sarah enrolled in YJEC for her 2L year, throughout which she was a fierce advocate for her clients. She uncovered evidence that a school district had illegally exited a client from special education, denying him the services he needed for years. Through her perseverance, she corrected this issue and got the client back on track to graduate from high school. In addition, Sarah staunchly advocated on behalf of a young man facing transfer to adult court, to ensure his continued access to K-12 and college education despite the barriers created by Probation. With no template or informing precedent, Sarah filed YJEC’s first ever Ombudsman complaint to investigate Probation’s interference with her client’s access to school, particularly their refusal to escort students to school. She and another YJEC student filed a due process complaint against several school districts including Los Angeles County Office of Education for their failure to provide an appropriate education that addressed his disability-related needs. The complaint experimented with novel issues regarding our client’s illegal change in placement when he was placed in de facto solitary confinement at the HOPE Center for several weeks. Sarah’s research and well-written motions supported a successful extension of the statute of limitations so that our client could bring more claims in administrative court. As a result of Sarah’s staunch advocacy at mediation, our client now has access to compensatory education services and a parenting course.

 

Sarah was also nominated by the CCCJP, where she is enrolled for the Spring semester of her 3L year. Sarah had prior experience completing Petitions for Dismissal which is a large part of the legal reentry work that CCCJP provides. Sarah was successfully able to assist a client with a complex criminal “rap sheet” who had multiple convictions in several California counties. She is now researching Tennessee law in order to seal an arrest for a client. Sarah hopes to merge her experience in YJEC and CCCJP in order to provide post-conviction relief for cross-over youth who have aged out of the foster care system.

Suffolk recipients for the CLEA Outstanding Clinic Student and Extern Award

Via Profs. Sarah Boonin and Mary Sawicki: 

 

Suffolk’s recipient of the CLEA Outstanding Clinical Student Award was graduating 3L, Femi Adeyemi:

 

. . . . Femi stood out in his excellence as a student in Suffolk’s Immigration Clinic. Femi’s first case was a detained bond matter, which he was assigned with another student. This was the first hearing for the year in the clinic and both students were nervous about appearing in court. Nevertheless, Femi volunteered to take the lead. He was dedicated to the case from beginning to end. He communicated regularly with the client and with his supervisor for guidance and feedback. He prepared a strong bond motion with supporting documents. At the bond hearing, it was evident that Femi had fully prepared his arguments as well as his client, and he delivered a very strong performance. Femi demonstrated initiative, courage, and leadership in his work on this case. Femi also worked on a Motion to Reopen that required attention to detail and careful organization. Again, Femi communicated regularly with his client, checked with his supervisor regularly, and prepared a strong motion with persuasive arguments, a strong affidavit, and substantial supporting documents. Femi also demonstrated excellence in the clinical seminar, successfully applying what he has learned in seminar to his cases. He was a generous colleague, volunteering to provide a Lexis training for the class and offering to help peers with their work. Finally, Femi epitomized professionalism and positivity. He went out of his way to exhibit kindness and respect when working with our administrative staff. He was a consistent positive and friendly presence in clinic – despite our virtual format.

 

Suffolk’s recipient of the CLEA Outstanding Extern was Ariana Campos:

Ariana Campos completed an externship at the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.  Suffolk Law Professor Rene Reyes, who acted as Ariana’s faculty supervisor for the externship commented in his nomination of Ariana for the CLEA Extern Award, “As the highest court in the Commonwealth, the SJC decides some of the most consequential and complex questions posed under state law.  Despite the challenges associated with analyzing such a range of important issues on tight deadlines, Ariana consistently produced extremely high-quality memoranda and made significant contributions to the work of the Court.”

 

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law’s CLEA Outstanding Team Award

Via Prof. Michael Pinard on the recipients of the CLEA Outstanding Team Award from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law: 

Affectionately referred to as “Team Housing” during their time in the Public Health Law Clinic, Delaney Anderson, Kyle Kerega, and Mollie Soloway worked individually and together on a number of projects related to housing instability, eviction, and homelessness prevention—critical issues in the best of times; far beyond critical during the pandemic. They monitored housing-related legislation introduced before the Maryland General Assembly, Baltimore City Council, and Prince George’s County Council, updated and reported on legislation status in weekly legislative briefing calls, and testified before the Maryland General Assembly on bills related to right to counsel in landlord-tenant matters and sealing of eviction records. Kyle also teamed with the Mediation Clinic to testify on a bill that would have created a statewide eviction diversion program. Delaney testified before the Baltimore City Council on a homelessness prevention bill.

Delaney, Kyle, and Mollie also presented a webinar for the Network for Public Health Law. The webinar, entitled Housing Matters: Legal and Policy Approaches to Preventing Housing Instability, had more than 260 attendees and was very well received. Staff from the Network’s National Office and two law professors from other institutions reached out to praise their research, poise, and command of the subject matter. Following their presentation, Delaney, Kyle, and Mollie developed five separate fact sheets based on their webinar, which have been published on the Network’s website: 1. Housing Instability as a Social Determinant of Health, 2. Deterring Serial Evictions, 3. Eviction Diversion and Prevention Programs, 4. The Right to Counsel in Landlord-Tenant Matters, and 5. Limiting Public Access to Eviction Records, as well as a Law & Policy Pathways document that outlines these law and policy approaches in a user-friendly graphic format.

In addition, Delaney, Kyle, and Mollie participated in the Eviction Prevention Project Zoom Clinics, providing advice to clients with landlord-tenant issues through a partnership with Prince George’s County Community Schools. Each, working with social work students, embraced the opportunity to improve the housing situation for these families through counseling them about their rights, assisting them to fill out the CDC Moratorium declaration form, and representing them in efforts to improve their housing conditions.

In each aspect of their group work, Delaney, Mollie, and Kyle deferred to teamwork and a willingness to learn from each other in a way that truly benefitted their work product. As one example, they ran their drafts by one another for feedback before submitting to their professors, to ensure their best work product. Their ability to work together so efficiently resulted in an incredibly highly functioning team that has been a pleasure to work with and yielded excellent work product. They epitomized the essence of the CLEA Outstanding Team Award.

Pepperdine Caruso School of Law recipients for the CLEA Outstanding Clinic Team and Extern awards

Via the Pepperdine Caruso Surf Report:

Each year, the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) invites law schools to name outstanding clinical students and externs from their programs. This year, the clinical faculty chose Ashley Feldman and Vivien Jin from the Community Justice Clinic as the Outstanding Clinical Team and Corey Straub as Outstanding Extern from the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law for 2020-2021.

 

Professor Jeff Baker described Ashley Feldman's and Vivien Jin's work in the Community Justice Clinic:

 

They worked diligently on a complex project advising a nonprofit client on the governing law and parameters for an app in development to increase access to medical care for rural women in Central America. The matter required research on conflicts of law issues and compliance with privacy and data laws for a transnational initiative to empower women in developing nations. It required creative lawyering, constant inquiry with the client, and close research on innovative ideas at the boundaries of tech, privacy, health, and international law.

 

Professor Sophia Hamilton, the Executive Director for Externships and Pro Bono, praised Corey Straub's work in this externship:

 

During his 2L year, Corey has excelled in his work with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County. His work supervisor noted that, "Corey is a true talent. He has become a valued member of our team, and people enjoy and benefit from his research and perspective. I rely on him greatly, particularly in our impact and policy work. He is always willing to put in extra hours, jump in for urgent projects, and present in meetings. His research and writing is exemplary and has been asked to participate in drafting and editing portions of CPRA requests and complaints. I often forget he is a law student, as he rises to and exceeds expectations and challenges given to him."

 

Congratulations to these outstanding Caruso Law students for recognition well-deserved.