{"id":39898,"date":"2020-03-28T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T22:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/?p=39898"},"modified":"2020-03-28T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T22:46:38","slug":"law-students-offer-pro-bono-covid-19-legal-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2020\/03\/28\/law-students-offer-pro-bono-covid-19-legal-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Law students offer pro bono COVID-19 legal support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abaforlawstudents.com\/2020\/03\/19\/law-students-paralegals-offer-pro-bono-covid-19-legal-support\/?fbclid=IwAR0XrYNHWX_p1pKISPSeQok4vWuChhegcCPLX6MWzKOjr4kZ2pla9jWJHtU\">Original article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Communities across the United States are experiencing significant impacts of the spread of COVID-19. One of these impacts is an increase in unique, urgent legal needs. Attorneys across the country are working nearly non-stop to ensure that those impacted by COVID-19 have access to appropriate legal services.<\/p>\n<p>In support of these efforts, more than 300 law students, paralegals, and student paralegals have offered to provide remote pro-bono support for coronavirus-related matters. These students stand ready to provide research, drafting, and other support to attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of projects students may assist on include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li>Research regarding paid leave policies;<\/li>\n<li>Drafting for bail motions;<\/li>\n<li>Supporting efforts to seek release from immigration custody.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If attorneys are interested in receiving student support on their COVID-19 related matters, they should fill out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfAGWHCWfCN-xmPpoCAilUmNdA24CYFvghAIrczmqiO6tFCjw\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">this form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If students are interested in providing support, they should fill out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSewQhizXsYOuA95BuwA0K0NIQDdnNhEVmBAEqbIe_wSa6I6mg\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">this form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions and concerns can be directed to Alyssa Leader (<a href=\"mailto:aleader@live.unc.edu\">aleader@live.unc.edu<\/a>), a student helping to coordinate this pro bono effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article here Communities across the United States are experiencing significant impacts of the spread of COVID-19. One of these impacts is an increase in unique, urgent legal needs. Attorneys across the country are working nearly non-stop to ensure that those impacted by COVID-19 have access to appropriate legal services. In support of these efforts, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2020\/03\/28\/law-students-offer-pro-bono-covid-19-legal-support\/\" class=\"more-link\">Law students offer pro bono COVID-19 legal support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2842,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-announcements","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}