Topic: public service

Law School awarded grant for clinical law project on affordable housing

18 September 2008

  • Living Portland

(Portland, Ore.)—The Collins Foundation has awarded a grant totaling $180,000 to support the Community Development, Nonprofit and Affordable Housing Practicum, a joint clinical law project of the Lewis & Clark Law School and the Community Development Law Center.  The practicum project serves community development corporations and nonprofits focused on economic development and affordable housing issues [...]

Video: Law student prepares for career in public service

3 September 2008

  • Advancing Knowledge
  • Living Portland

(Portland, Ore.)—After devoting a decade of her life to volunteering at homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and libraries, Lewis & Clark law student Ginger Beck realized that practicing public interest law was the best possible expression of her commitment to community service. Toward that goal, Beck spent her summer researching legal cases for the Oregon Law Center [...]

Dean Klonoff collaborates on initiative to reform class-action lawsuits

15 July 2008

  • Advancing Knowledge
  • Engaging our World

(Portland, Ore.)—For four years, Robert Klonoff, dean of Lewis & Clark Law School, has been working with a handful of top legal scholars, judges and practitioners from across the country on a project designed to improve the legal process of class action lawsuits. When the project is finished, it could dramatically change the way class-action [...]