Category: Rising for Justice
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Celebration of Service 2022 Honoree: Julie Jacobs
Julie Jacobs: Celebration of Service Honoree
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Daniel Clark of Rising for Justice Receives the 2019 Scoutt Prize
Our very own, Daniel M. Clark, received the 2019 Scoutt Prize on last Thursday, October 10. Awarded by the District of Columbia Bar Foundation (DCBF), the Scoutt Prize is awarded annually to an attorney who has worked for a significant portion of his or her career at a nonprofit organization providing direct, hands-on legal services…
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Celebration of Service Marks 50 Years of Rising for Justice
Event Honored Brian Ellis, General Counsel of Danaher and featured Karl Racine, Attorney General of the District of Columbia. Washington, D.C., September 30th, 2019 – Over 400 leaders of the D.C. legal community gathered last Tuesday for Rising for Justice’s 2019 Celebration of Service, the largest and most successful event in the organization’s fifty year history.…
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Rising for Justice Names Grace M. Lopes as Executive Director
Washington DC, October 4, 2019 – The Board of Directors for Rising for Justice, formerly known as Law Students in Court, today announced it has named Grace M. Lopes as Executive Director. Lopes will succeed longtime Executive Director Moses Cook, who is relocating with his family abroad. “Grace is a widely respected leader in…
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After Mississippi: Why Immigration Defense Programs Matter
Written by Zain Murdock In Morton, Mississippi, earlier this month, 680 undocumented immigrants were detained at their place of work. Children came home from school to empty houses. Some parents were immediately carted off to ICE detention. Others were released with ankle monitors, marking them as criminals. The horrors endured that day by hundreds of…
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D.C. Law Students In Court Celebrates Fifty Years of Service and New Name
Washington DC, August 14, 2019 – Founded in 1969 to address the almost total lack of legal representation of clients in the Small Claims Branch of the D.C. Superior Court, Law Students in Court today has been rebranded as Rising for Justice – a recognition of the scope and impact of the organization’s mission. Launched…
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Expunging the Scarlet Letter
DC Law Students in Court provides expungement services to create real second chances. “A scarlet letter,” is how Gwen Washington describes the stain of having a criminal record. Washington is DC Law Students in Court’s (LSIC) Expungement Director. Her work at LSIC centers heavily on helping vulnerable DC residents remove the stigma of a criminal…
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Others Teach Law, We Teach Justice
“Clients don’t stand a chance.” [1] This was the prevailing sentiment in 1968 amongst forward thinking attorneys who sought to create a program that would improve the quality of justice available to a vast majority of small-claims defendants who could not afford legal representation.[2] Together, they fought for the creation of D.C. Law Students in…
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LSIC Housing Advocacy and Litigation Clinic: Student Attorney Experiences, Lily Wu and Courtney Lutz
Fast paced and constant, that’s the energy within the Landlord Tenant Branch of the DC Superior Court. Lily Wu learned this very quickly during her semester serving as a student attorney in our HALC. On the first day she reported for work, Lily Wu and her colleague, Courtney Lutz, received a significant assignment: to represent…
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Evictions, Poor Living Conditions & Homelessness: This is the Housing Crisis in DC
“Next,” calls out the security guard behind the metal detector at DC’s Landlord Tenant Court. Ms. Lee[1] walks up, struggling to manage her belongs along with the stroller carrying her six-month-old baby. “Which way is landlord tenant court?” she asks. After waiting in what feels like an endless line, Ms. Lee walks to the courtroom…