Cooley Godward Kronish Establishes Clinical Teaching Fellowship at Stanford Law School.Cooley Commits $250,000 to Fund Teaching Fellow for the Immigrants' Rights Clinic Jennifer H. Lee Is Named Inaugural Fellow STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford Law School  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . today announced that Cooley Godward Kronish Cooley Godward Kronish LLP ("Cooley") is a law firm that represents entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and emerging growth companies in major technology fields. The 600-attorney firm is headquartered in Silicon Valley's Palo Alto with offices in other major technology hubs around LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol has committed $250,000 to support a teaching fellowship for five years for the Immigrants' Rights Clinic (IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Computer conferencing on the Internet. There are hundreds of IRC channels on numerous subjects that are hosted on IRC servers around the world. After joining a channel, your messages are broadcast to everyone listening to that channel. ), which enables law students to get practical training by representing individual immigrants and immigrants' rights organizations. Attorney Jennifer H. Lee has been named the inaugural Cooley Godward Kronish Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year. The clinic, directed by Associate Professor Jayashri Srikantiah, teaches about two dozen students each year how to represent indigent indigent 1) n. a person so poor and needy that he/she cannot provide the necessities of life (food, clothing, decent shelter) for himself/herself. 2) n. one without sufficient income to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case. individual immigrants on a variety of matters such as: seeking humanitarian relief from deportation on behalf of non-citizens with criminal convictions; obtaining asylum protection for non-citizens who flee persecution; and assisting immigrant survivors of domestic violence to gain lawful status in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The IRC shares an affinity with Cooley's pro bono Short for pro bono publico [Latin, For the public good]. The designation given to the free legal work done by an attorney for indigent clients and religious, charitable, and other nonprofit entities. practice, which includes providing counsel in immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. and human rights cases. "Immigrants' rights are a major civil rights issue of our time," said IRC director Jayashri Srikantiah. "Together with the Cooley Godward Kronish Fellow Jennifer Lee, I hope to inspire and teach the next generation of compassionate and public service-minded lawyers." Cooley's gift has grown out of a long-standing relationship with Stanford Law School and a shared focus with the IRC on immigrants' human rights. Cooley has been an affiliate partner of another clinic, the Stanford Community Law Clinic, since 2003. "We're pleased to help support the teaching mission of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Stanford Law," said Maureen Alger, Cooley's full-time pro bono partner. "The IRC's work dovetails with the Cooley's ongoing commitment to pro bono work on behalf of indigent immigrants and asylum-seekers." Lee is joining the IRC from private practice. She has extensive experience working with immigrant survivors of domestic violence and was director of the Community Liaison Project at Sanctuary for Families' Center for Battered Women's Legal Services legal services n. the work performed by a lawyer for a client. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . She is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review The Columbia Law Review is a law review edited and published entirely by students at Columbia Law School. It was founded in 1901 by Joseph E. Corrigan and John M. Woolsey, who served as the Review's first editor-in-chief and secretary. , an editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and president of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. Following law school, she clerked for the late Honorable Eugene H. Nickerson of the Eastern District of New York. "I am honored and excited to be the first Cooley Godward Kronish Fellow," Lee said. "I look forward to building upon the impressive track record of the IRC in training Stanford law students by advancing the rights of immigrants in this country." Cooley attorneys regularly represent indigent immigrants who have been the subject of persecution in their home country before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals The Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") is the part of the Executive Office for Immigration Review that reviews the decisions of the Immigration Courts and some decisions of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. and the United States Court of Appeals The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal court system. A court of appeals decides appeals from the district courts within its federal judicial circuit, and in some instances from other for the Ninth Circuit. Cooley is co-counsel on a landmark case landmark case Law & medicine A civil or, far less commonly, criminal action that has had an impact on a particular area of medicine. , Santillan, et al. v. Gonzales, et al., filed in federal district court in San Francisco, in which the court granted summary judgment in favor of a nationwide class of lawful permanent residents who had been denied documentary proof of their lawful status, or "green cards." In addition, Cooley recently teamed with civil rights groups, including the ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. and the Mexican-American Legal Defense & Education Fund, to challenge a law passed by the City of Escondido, Calif. that precluded "illegal aliens" from renting or staying in rental property in that city. The team obtained an injunction and the city dropped the ban and agreed to pay fees and costs. The IRC is currently representing clients in several immigration-related cases in state, federal, immigration, and international courts. Recent successes include: the IRC's efforts on behalf of 24 civil rights groups in Lopez v. Gonzales Lopez v. Gonzales, 549 U.S. ___ (2006), held that an "aggravated felony" includes only conduct punishable as a felony under the federal Controlled Substances Act, regardless of whether state law classifies such conduct as a felony or a misdemeanor. before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ultimately ruled in favor of the non-citizen in that case; numerous victories in immigration court on behalf of lawful permanent residents with past criminal convictions; several cases in which the IRC worked successfully to secure legal status in the United States for clients who were immigrant survivors of domestic violence; and an asylum case in which the IRC represented a Guatemalan woman who fled severe domestic and gang-related violence. The IRC is one of ten clinics that operate within the umbrella clinical education program, the Stanford Legal Clinic. Clinical education at Stanford Law School provides in-depth, hands-on learning opportunities that prepare students for real-world legal practice, and it helps instill in·still v. To pour in drop by drop. in  stil·la tion n. in students a fundamental, lifetime commitment to
public service and pro bono activities. Students in the Immigrants'
Rights Clinic interview and counsel clients, investigate facts, develop
case theory, interview witnesses, write declarations and briefs, and
argue cases in immigration court. Students also conduct
multi-disciplinary advocacy work on behalf of immigrants' rights
organizations and community organizations to protect the human rights of
all immigrants.
"Clinical education is a teaching-intensive incubator for tomorrow's public service and pro bono lawyers, as well as a training ground for all future lawyers -- whatever their long-term career intentions," said Larry Marshall, professor of law, David and Stephanie Mills Director of Clinical Education, and associate dean for Public Interest and Clinical Education. "The Cooley Fellowship will enable us to offer more students closely supervised clinical training, and the opportunity to reflect deeply on the work they do." About the Stanford Legal Clinic Stanford Law School runs a variety of clinics that litigate in a number of specialized fields, including immigrants' rights, community law, cyberlaw, environmental protection, and educational advocacy. The clinics operate cohesively as a single law firm -- the Stanford Legal Clinic (SLC (Subscriber Loop Carrier) Lucent's designation for its digital loop carrier (DLC) products. See digital loop carrier. See also 386SLC. ) -- and provide pro bono representation to the public. Clinical courses are structured as supervised settings that teach students: how to work with clients and colleagues, how to address the ethical dilemmas that arise in practice, and how to apply legal concepts taught hypothetically or in the abstract in the classroom to a real world, client representation situation. Overall, the SLC has the capacity for every student to take one clinical course at some point during their three years at Stanford Law School. The school's long term goal is to expand the number and range of its clinical courses and develop a "clinical rotation clinical rotation Medical education A period in which a medical student in the clinical part of his/her education passes through various 'working' services3 in 1-4 month blocks " where students take only a clinic during a particular quarter -- with no competing exams or classes. Expanding the Immigrants' Rights Clinic and other course offerings within the Stanford Legal Clinic is a central part of the comprehensive curricular innovation underway at Stanford Law School. The Stanford Legal Clinic homepage is located at: www.law.stanford.edu/program/clinics. About Stanford Law School Stanford Law School is one of the nation's leading institutions for legal scholarship and education. Its alumni are among the most influential decision makers in law, politics, business, and high technology. Faculty members argue before the Supreme Court, testify before Congress, and write books and articles for academic audiences, as well as the popular press. Along with offering traditional law school classes, the school has embraced new subjects and new ways of teaching. The school's home page is located at www.law.stanford.edu. About Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Cooley Godward Kronish's 580 attorneys have an entrepreneurial spirit and deep, substantive experience and are committed to solving clients' most challenging legal matters. From small companies with big ideas to international enterprises with diverse legal needs, Cooley Godward Kronish has the breadth of legal resources to enable companies of all sizes to seize opportunities in today's global marketplace. The firm represents clients across a broad array of dynamic industry sectors, including technology, life sciences, financial services, retail and energy. The firm has full-service offices in major commercial, government and technology centers: Palo Alto, CA; New York, NY; San Diego CA; San Francisco, CA; Reston, VA; Broomfield, CO and Washington, DC. For additional information, please visit www.cooley.com. |
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