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EJA Celebrates Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Equal Justice America was recently featured in the National Legal Aid & Defender Association's Cornerstone Magazine...More |
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Richmond Times Dispatch on EJA's Virginians for Equal Justice
Newspaper article highlights EJA's Virginia campaign...More |
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EJA Gets Major Grant from Cameron Foundation
The Cameron Foundation has awarded a $36,000 grant to Equal Justice America in support of our Virginians for Equal Justice campaign...More |
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For the 2nd Straight Year Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Sponsors EJA Summer Fellow
The Washington, DC office of the law firm of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP participated in Equal Justice America's Washington, DC for Equal Justice campaign, again this year, sponsoring a Summer 2009 Fellowship for George Washington University law student Jennifer Rodrigue, who worked at
National Center on Homelessness & Poverty in Washington, DC...More |
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Bingham McCutchen LLP Again Sponsors Two EJA Fellows for Summer 2009
For the fifth straight year, the law firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP has sponsored two EJA Summer Fellows...More |
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Mabie Family Foundation Provides Major Grant to EJA
For the seventh straight year, the Mabie Family Foundation has provided support to Equal Justice America. This year, the Mabie Foundation provided $16,000 to Equal Justice America. The Mabie Foundation grant funded three Summer 2009 EJA Fellowships ...More
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Virginians for Equal
Justice Campaign
Equal Justice America (EJA) has
created a program, Virginians for Equal Justice,
to employ more Virginia law students at Virginia
legal service organizations. EJA has agreements
with the Virginia law schools (Washington & Lee
School of Law, George Mason University, William
& Mary School of Law, University of Richmond,
Liberty University, Regent University, and the
University of Virginia) to identify students for
employment and assist in preparing them to work.
EJA is located in Midlothian, Virginia but this
will be the first major initiative in the
Commonwealth....More
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EJA Founder Receives
Lifetime Achievement Award at Pace University
School of Law
Dan Ruben, Founder and Executive Director
of Equal Justice America has been awarded the
Public Interest Law Students (PILSO)
Lifetime Achievement Award at Pace
University School of Law. Ruben received
the award at a dinner event at Pace on March 21,
2003....More
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Two-Year EJA Fellowship to
Stanford Law Graduate to Work in Break the
Cycle's New San Francisco Office
Equal Justice America and Break the Cycle have
joined forces in the fight against domestic
violence. As Break the Cycle expands its
program into three new cities later this year,
Equal Justice America has promised to award an
EJA Fellowship to a Stanford law graduate to
work in the new Break the Cycle San Francisco
office....More
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Equal Justice America
Opens
Disability Law Clinic at Pace University School
of Law
The Equal Justice America
Disability Law Clinic opened in the Fall
2000 semester as part of the clinical program at
Pace University School of Law. For two
years, the EJA Clinic has delivered much needed
civil legal services to indigent disabled
children and adults, while educating law
students who are committed to becoming effective
advocates for those in need....More
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