Meet Our LEIF Fellows & Summer Law Clerks

We are excited to welcome our summer class of 34 law clerks, who represent 22 law schools. The students join us remotely from nearly a dozen metropolitan areas across the nation, as far away as Boston, Chicago, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They also speak 14 languages other than English, ranging from Spanish and Korean to […]

LAFLA Fellows Fight Housing Insecurity

This fall, LAFLA welcomed three postgraduate fellows whose work focuses on housing issues – especially critical as the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on underserved communities. Meet our fellows and learn about their experiences. Curtis Skinner, Community Economic Development Fellow Prior to transitioning to law school, I was a journalist for about five years. After […]

Fellow Focus: Patrick McDonell

We are thrilled to welcome Summer Law Clerk Patrick McDonell, who joins LAFLA as part of the Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship Program. The program provides grants for law students pursuing public interest summer law positions. Patrick, who is a rising 3L at the University of Michigan Law School, shared some insight into […]

LAFLA Welcomes Our New Fellows

LAFLA is proud to host several new fellows, who joined LAFLA this fall. Meet the fellows and learn about their projects, in their own words (pictured above, from left to right): José Del Río III, USC Gould School of Law Irmas Fellowship: Project: “This project works to achieve student debt relief for low-income and financially […]

Hope for Victims of For-Profit College Fraud

The for-profit college industry has made billions of dollars by targeting vulnerable communities through predatory, deceptive, and even illegal practices. Many of their students have ended up with staggering, insurmountable debt—unable to find jobs, repay their loans, and ultimately advance their lives. Athena was struggling to provide for her two young children on a minimum-wage […]