Veterans Legal Services Clinic

Arkansas has more than 202,000 veterans, more than 30,000 of whom live in Pulaski County. The Veterans Legal Services Clinic seeks to honour those who have served by providing client-centred, trauma-informed advocacy. „Professionally, the Veterans Legal Clinic has been a great opportunity to put into practice what I have learned in the classroom. I wrote real legal briefs, prepared arguments to present to the court, appeared before a judge with a client. Personally, as the son-in-law of a veteran and someone dedicated to addressing the current homelessness crisis in our city, it was an incredibly meaningful experience. „–Ian Grady, Class of 2019 The clinic is representing Martin Johnson and Jane Doe in a national class action lawsuit on behalf of thousands of Air Force veterans. Johnson and Doe say the Air Force Dump Review Board discriminates against people with disabilities by ignoring the impact of their mental health on their behavior. Destini joined Harvard Law School`s Legal Services Center in 2018 as a clinical instructor and director of the Veterans Legal Clinic`s estate planning project. Destini`s clinical work focuses on free legal representation for veterans in areas such as drafting wills, powers of attorney, powers of attorney and trusts. Prior to joining the Veterans Legal Clinic, Destini was most recently Deputy Director of the Office of Co-op Programs and Career Development at Northeastern University School of Law, where she also served as a mock trial coach for the NUSL`s National Fair Trial Team.

She has also taken on pro bono cases for the Community Legal Services and Counseling Center`s Immigration Law Project and the Women`s Bar Foundation`s Elder Law Project, where she helped seniors prepare their estate planning documents. Previously, Destini was a litigator in the Child and Family Law Division of the Public Advisory Committee. Destini is originally from Arizona and received her B.S. in Justice Studies and Social Investigation from Arizona State University, graduating summa laude. She is also a graduate of New York University School of Law, where she received the John Sexton Dean`s Award for Outstanding Service to the School of Law. A white paper and detailed appendix from the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School (VLSC) and the National Veterans Legal Service Program (NVLSP) for veterans who served in Guam from 1958 to 1980 to submit in the United States. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to support their Service Agent Orange disability claims. NOTE: The Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinical Seminar and the Poverty Law Workshop are accepted as seminar options for this clinic.

Jack is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Legal Services and works at the Veterans Legal Clinic. He is a retired partner in the Boston office of WilmerHale`s Litigation Division, where he was a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation and Commercial Trials practice groups. Jack co-chaired WilmerHale`s pro bono committee for many years and had an active pro bono practice, including extensive work in Haiti, representing veterans and advising non-profit organizations in many sectors. Jack is the past president of the Boston Bar Association, serves on the boards of international humanitarian and educational charities in inner cities, and is a trustee of the Lynch Foundation, a major nonprofit funder. Jack is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and New York University School of Law, where he was a specialist in tilden roots. Jack served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy on a frigate. Students at the clinic work to protect the rights of veterans, their families and people with disabilities. The Connecticut chapter of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA-CT) fulfills IAVA`s mission to connect, unite, and empower post-9/11 veterans in the state. IAVA-CT is committed to ensuring that all Connecticut veterans – including those discharged from the Army under less honorable conditions – are welcomed into their homes and continue to receive effective support and care in their communities. More recently, IAVA-CT has proposed and advocated for legislation to ensure equal access to benefits for state veterans.

The clinic represents Isaak Olson, a former cadet in the United States. The Coast Guard Academy, which questions the Academy`s blanket ban on cadets becoming parents. In passing Special Law No. 13-5, the General Assembly created a task force to determine how state licensing processes can be streamlined to help Connecticut veterans transition from the military to the workforce. The Veterans Legal Services Clinic provides Bowen law students with a high-quality, service-oriented learning experience and helps Arkansas veterans access benefits available to them under federal law. Carmen Cardona, a disabled Navy veteran, was denied spousal benefits by the VA because she was married to a woman. The clinic was instrumental in the success of his application. The clinic represents Ivan Ocon, a veteran from Las Cruces, New Mexico, who served six years in the U.S. Army and was sent to Jordan as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, in his application for military naturalization. Yale Law School offers more than 30 clinics that provide students with practical and practical legal experience on a variety of topics. As part of UCLA Law School`s experiential education program, the clinic differs from the student-run El Centro Legal Clinic, which also supports veterans. The veteran of the clinic who has been taken into care in deportation proceedings and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on minor criminal convictions such as drug possession.

Lindsay Church is the executive director and co-founder of Minority Veterans of America. She served in the Navy as a Persian-Farsi linguist from 2008 to 2012 as a member of the LGBTQ service under „Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell.“ During her tenure, Lindsay attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, before retiring medical in 2012 after complications of surgery. Upon her return to Seattle, Lindsay attended the University of Washington and earned a bachelor`s degree in Islamic studies and a master`s degree in international studies with a specialization in the Middle East. His work began with veterans in 2014 and now includes service to veterans in higher education, traditional veterans` service organizations, through congressional advocacy, and more. In the fall of 2016, Vietnam Veterans of America hired the Veterans Legal Services Clinic to determine whether President Barack Obama could grant presidential pardons to veterans with dishonorable releases. Daniel Nagin is a Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Centre for Legal Services. He is also the faculty director of the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Service Center, which he founded in 2012. Her teaching and research interests include clinical teaching, social law and policy, and legal services for veterans. Nagin holds a B.A. in History and Government, Phi Beta Kappa, and with honors in all subjects, from Cornell University, an M.A. from Stanford University, and a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago School of Law, where he received the Edwin F.

Mandel Award for Excellence as a Clinical Law Student. Check out the Harvard Nagin Law School website here.