CMLAW Students Among LASC 2021 Summer Associates and Volunteers
The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland recruited top students for its 2021 Summer Associate and Volunteer Program.
As in 2020, students will work remote on important projects focused on Legal Aid's mission. Legal Aid attorneys mentor the summer staff on issues of poverty law. The structured program includes trainings on substantive law, public interest work, and basics of legal practice. Students learn how to interview clients, draft court pleadings, research relevant legal issues and observe hearings and trials. Other students gain experience in community outreach, social work, development and public relations.
Three students from CSU C|M|LAW will participate:
Erykah Gandy
Summer Associate
Family Practice Group
Monday Morning Message 3.22.21 a Single Garment of Destiny
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The language of humanity and empathy needs to drown out the language of dehumanization. In this process of rehumanization, words do, in fact, matter. Words can heal. Words can re-engage people’s morality.” C|M|LAW Professor Reggie Oh
Anti-Asian Racism - We Stand in Solidarity.
A Message from Dean Lee Fisher
This morning I want to express CSU Cleveland-Marshall’s deepest support for the Asian American community. We unequivocally condemn the surge in anti-Asian violence throughout the nation, most recently with the shootings of six Asian women in Atlanta this week. We mourn their senseless murders. I call on all of us to join together as a C|M|LAW community to stand in solidarity with our Asian students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends and stand up against anti-Asian hate and violence.
CSU CMLAW Alumna Fudge ’83 Sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
CSU C|M|LAW alumna and Hall of Fame member Marcia Fudge ’83 made history March 11 as she was sworn in as the first woman to lead the Department of Housing and Urban development in more than 40 years, the second black woman to lead the department and the
CSU C|M|LAW BLSA Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Team Wins National Championship
CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s Black Law Students Association Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Team topped teams from law schools throughout the country to win the National Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition.
Monday Morning Message 3.15.21 In the Cabinet!
“The housing crisis isn’t isolated by geography. It is the daily reality for tens of millions of our fellow Americans - people in blue states and red states, in cities and small towns. My first priority as Secretary would be to alleviate that crisis and get people the support they need to come back from the edge.” – HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge
Monday Morning Message 3.8.21 National Champions!
“When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become—whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm—her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than an inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, “Yes, someone like me can do this.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Monday Morning Message 3.1.21 Announcing Our 2021 Hall of Fame Inductees
“Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“Words cannot express the gratitude I have for the scholarship you all have so kindly decided to offer me…You all have given me the opportunity to fulfill my destiny and for that I am forever grateful ! My son will one day be able to say that his mother was given a chance despite financial hardship, and this blessing can teach him that if you dream big enough, no obstacle will be big enough.” -1L Student
Monday Morning Message 2.22.21 Pay it Forward.
“As we talked about, I am the first person in my family to graduate from college. So I have not had anyone who could really help me with my law school decision. Your encouragement and insights came just at the right time. I hope to “pay it forward” some day when I am a lawyer by mentoring a future law student!” – Admitted Student for Fall 2021 First Year Class
Civil Litigation Clinic Successful in Furloughed Unemployment Claim
Working with clients remotely this fall due to pandemic protocols, CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Civil Litigation Clinic students have faced a set unforeseen obstacles. Undeterred, the students have worked diligently to still provide successful representation in Unemployment Compensation disputes at a time of great need.
“We have faced the same challenges attorneys have faced in their practices and have had to adapt in a similar fashion,” explained Clinical Professor Ken Kowalski. “Our students have adapted pretty well. It would be much nicer for the student to be able to meet with me, their clients and each other in person, but they are doing what needs to be done in order to provide representation to our clients.”