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Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Supports immigrants in resolving immigration matters and achieving full integration into society. Offers legal assistance, aid with residency and citizenship forms, support with family petitions, evaluations of criminal records, consular processing, translations, and tax return assistance. Additionally, assists with federal tax forms, represents taxpayers in IRS disputes, and educates taxpayers about their rights and responsibilities.
Advocates for low-income clients, the Civil Justice Clinic addresses various civil cases, focusing on housing, family, consumer law, probate, bankruptcy, unemployment compensation, social security, SSI disability benefits, and other public benefits. Under faculty supervision, students actively engage in cases such as defending eviction actions, assisting tenants with repairs, litigating to recover security deposits, opposing illegal rent increases, and handling cases related to real estate, home repair, car repair, or purchase scams, divorce, custody, alimony, domestic violence, child support, and social security disability. Students undertake the entire legal process, including client interviews, negotiations, drafting legal documents, and conducting depositions and trials. Additionally, the clinic periodically undertakes broader law reform and impact advocacy initiatives on systemic issues within civil poverty law.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Provides supportive services for individuals in the community. Services include: information and referral for assistive technology devices and services, advocacy, and legal representation.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Serves the immigrant population through client representation and advocacy. Under faculty supervision, they handle cases such as asylum, relief from removal, and protection for victims of human trafficking and other crimes. Students manage all aspects of their cases, including interviewing, legal research, and representing clients at immigration hearings.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Provides pro bono legal assistance to victims of violent crime throughout New Jersey. Applicable crimes include: homicide, sexual assault, child and elder abuse, aggravated assault, domestic violence, stalking, teen dating violence, and human trafficking.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Operates a public interest law firm that specializes in the reform of the public elementary and secondary school systems in New Jersey. The law firm provides free legal representation for low-income parents and guardians of public school children who encounter problems in areas such as special education, school discipline, school residency, bullying/harassment bilingual education, and the provision of a thorough and efficient education.
Provides consultation in obtaining or dropping a restraining order. Also includes information on court procedures, and accompaniment for a client through the court process in the Freehold Family Court.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Provides professional development, continuing legal education (CLE), legal research resources, legislative advocacy, networking opportunities, and public legal information resources to individuals in New Jersey.
Offers individual legal consultations and pro bono services to Sussex County residents within specified income limits. Covered legal issues include family law, bankruptcy, elder law, and expungement, with exclusion of criminal matters. Free legal education workshops and assistance in accessing community resources are available. Additionally, court accompaniment, pro se divorce workshops, and do-it-yourself legal clinics are offered.
Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.
Provides free civil legal assistance for deployment-related matters. Applicable topics include: family, employment, debtor-creditor, and military administrative issues.