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Texas Tech University School of Law |
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Student Public Interest Initiative |
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Grant recipients and the projects they have done: |
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Cynthia Pool worked for Advocacy, Inc., a non-profit corporation that assists the disabled by enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act and providing legal services to people with disabilities. Her efforts in research and discovery helped increase the accessibility of several public restaurants and stores in West Texas and helped Advocacy attorneys protect the civil rights of their clients. |
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Adrián de la Rosa worked for the Equal Justice Center. His efforts helped to create a safe place for day laborers to seek employment, and efforts to ensure justice for these workers. |
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Heather McDonald worked for Lone Star Legal Aid, an LSC funded program that provides legal services to low-income clients in 72 counties. Her work included research and observation of new technology and legal aid priorities to help initiate a legal advice line that will serve all 72 counties from Texarkana to Galveston. |
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Texas Advocacy, Inc. |
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Equal Justice Center |
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Lone Star Legal Aid |
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Past Projects |
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Supervising Attorney Comments: |
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At the end of each summer, we ask the attorneys who supervised grant recipients to comment on how the internship went. Here is what a few of them had to say... |
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Grant recipients have also worked for:
· Children’s Advocacy Project · Lone Star Legal Aid—Galveston · Legal Aid of Northwest Texas
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· Legal Aid Society of Lubbock · West Texas Innocence Project · Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid |
![Text Box: “[She] has been a great addition to Texas RioGrande Legal Aid... She has been working on a Border Case where she has drafted some pre-trial motions. She is also working on a toxic law case doing research. Another of her projects include research on the "Top 10%" and if there were to be legal ramifications if those bills were to pass.
She has great things to say about the Texas Tech Law School and your Public Interest Program. It has been a delight and privilege to work with [her] this Summer. She is the first one to volunteer for new projects and has taken her clerkship seriously. She has visited other Legal Aid offices and saw first-hand some of our projects on the Border. She seems to really understand the need for Public Interest Law and I hope she continues her interest in that area. Thank you so much for providing her the opportunity to work at our office.”](image1279.gif)
![Text Box: “Thanks to SPII, [she] was able to work here at the project all summer. She put in the requisite hours and more. She has performed admirably: the critical projects she was given have all been completed. As a result of her work, We are now in a position to be fully operational for the fall semester. Without [her] this would not have been possible. In addition to performing important organizational tasks, [she] also did quite a bit of in-depth case review and briefing. Her work was excellent.
I want SPII to know that your decision to help out our project saved our organizational life. Because of your help, we are in a position to really get fully underway this fall. If you need more information, let me know. Thanks again- and if I can ever repay the favor to you guys I will.”](image1317.gif)
![Text Box: “...She has been of great assistance to us and is a diligent and conscientious worker. We have
appreciated her interest in learning as well as her interest in and dedication to our clients this summer.
[She] has spent a lot of time on direct client contact, partly because she has been an operator on our telephone intake hotline most mornings. In the afternoons, she has completed a variety of tasks assigned to her by staff attorneys. Among other things, she has completed several legal research assignments, written at least one research memo, prepared affidavits for clients in family law cases involving domestic violence, and prepared documents related to a client's U-Visa application. Thank you for funding her work this summer. We have been glad to have her working with us…”](image1312.gif)
![Text Box: “It has been a pleasure having [her] as an intern in my office... While we have not had a need for writing any legal briefs during her internship, she has engaged in legal research and has been invaluable to the office in the performance of her assigned duties. In addition to more mundane tasks, she has served as my special assistant on a very important and complicated project for Lone Star Legal Aid. I have no reservations in recommending her for any career path she might choose to pursue.”](image1311.gif)