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02/28/2017 - DePaul College of Law partners with Illinois Legal Aid Online to host legal answers pro bono clinic housing and family law

DePaul’s Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center, Center for Public Interest Law, and Pro Bono & Community Service Initiative joined forces with Illinois Legal Aid Online to host a Legal Answers pro bono clinic in family and housing law. The clinic took place on Friday, February 24th at DePaul College of Law.  Fifteen pro bono attorneys, many of who are DePaul alumni, and...

12/16/2016 - DePaul Law congratulates its three Unity Award winners

DePaul University College of Law congratulates three students, Lark Mulligan, Fadya Salem and Emily Steinert, on winning scholarships at the 2016 Unity Award Dinner & 14th Swearing-In of Bar Presidents Ceremony. Both Mulligan and Steinert received the Jerold S. Solovy Diversity Scholarship Award, which honors students who promote diversity within the legal field...

11/01/2016 - Family law center teaches students about public service and child advocacy work

DePaul University College of Law's Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center joined with the Center for Public Interest Law and the Pro Bono & Community Service Initiative to host a discussion on public service and child advocacy work. Professor Allison Ortlieb moderated the panel, which featured the Honorable Patrick T. Murphy of the Circuit Court of Cook County’s...

10/28/2016 - DePaul Law announces 2016 Loan Repayment Assistance Program recipients

DePaul University College of Law is proud to announce its 2016 Loan Repayment Assistance Program award recipients. Started in 2006, the Loan Repayment Assistance Program recognizes graduates who have dedicated their career to the public sector by providing them with financial support towards alleviating their student debt. Over the past decade, more than 60 alumni have benefited from the...

10/25/2016 - DePaul Law hosts 'Crook County' author Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

DePaul University College of Law's Journal of Social Justice welcomed author Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve for a talk about her new book, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in Chicago's Largest Criminal Court. Crook County emerged from Van Cleve's 15 years of field research into Chicago's criminal court system, and her analysis of the racially biased culture that permeates it....