Summer 2003
GW Legal Clinic Lineup
By Brian
Krause
GW’s nationally recognized Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics
specialize in a wide variety of fields:
• The Domestic Violence Project teams students with public interest
and pro-bono lawyers in the field to help represent low-income victims
of domestic violence.
In the Domestic Violence Emergency Department Clinic students are trained
to respond to emergency room patients who have experienced domestic
violence by providing information about legal options and community
resources.
• The oldest law school mediation program in the country and the
only alternative dispute resolution clinic in DC, the Consumer Mediation
Clinic provides assistance in resolving ongoing disputes with businesses.
• At the Health Law Rights Clinic, students help DC residents gain
access to health care and answer specific questions about Medicare,
Medicaid, private insurance, and federal health insurance benefits.
• Assisting low-income clients, students in the Civil Litigation
Clinic handle civil and family matters including divorce, custody, child
support, and occasionally Small Claims Court cases.
• The only one of its kind in the nation, the Vaccine Injury Clinic
represents the families of young children who have been injured by federally-mandated
vaccinations.
• In the Federal, Criminal, and Appellate Clinic each student-lawyer
handles an entire appeal — from opening brief through court decision
— of a client facing serious criminal charges.
• Students in the Public Justice Advocacy Clinic are assigned significant
and direct responsibility in civil public interest litigation involving
public entitlements, disability programs, and other matters.
• Since 1979, the Immigration Clinic has provided legal representation
to aliens who reside in the DC metropolitan area, who are among the
most vulnerable persons in society.
• Coming in 2004, the International Human Rights Law Clinic will
represent victims of torture and other human rights violations from
different countries.
Send feedback to: bygeorge@gwu.edu
