The Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic recently received a $72,000 Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children grant from the Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to strengthen the state's response against the sexual exploitation of youth. This is the second year in a row that the Wilbanks CEASE Clinic has been awarded funding from the council.
Since its establishment in 2014, the Community Health Law Partnership Clinic has aided more than 200 individuals. The initiative, directed by Associate Dean Jason A. Cade and serviced by law students, takes an interdisciplinary approach to immigrants’ rights through individual client representation, litigation and project-based advocacy before administrative agencies and federal courts.
The Veterans Legal Clinic, which was established in 2018, has helped approximately 430 veterans and their family members claim more than $1.5 million in additional benefits since opening its doors. The clinic – which primarily assists former Georgia military members with claims before the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs – was established with a lead gift from renowned trial attorney and 1977 law school alumnus James E. "Jim" Butler Jr.
The Alexander Campbell King Law Library operates an institutional repository - Digital Commons - that recently achieved the milestone of 3 million downloads. The repository has more than 13,000 publicly available documents and recently added a new series titled Historical Treatises, most of which are focused on the practice of law in Georgia and documents published between 1800-1920.
The School of Law regretfully shares the news that Ellen E. Scott, a member of the Class of 2023, passed away last week. Ellen was our classmate, our colleague, our student, and our friend. She was the daughter and sister of a grieving family. Funeral services will be June 12, 2022, in the Hillcrest Chapel of the Acree-Davis Funeral Home in Toccoa. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers.