From environmental protection to workers’ rights, UC Law San Francisco students spent thousands of hours offering their talents and expertise to support multiple causes and clients over the last year.
Through clinics, externships, and pro bono work, the law students provided more than 60,000 unpaid hours of legal work, amounting to more than $7.8 million in free legal assistance to nonprofits, public agencies, and individual clients.
“We are immensely proud of what our students accomplished this year,” said Gail Silverstein, Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Co-Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Law SF. “Their contributions have made a tangible difference for the clients and communities they served. We hope it helps foster a lifelong commitment to social justice work, regardless of where each student ends up in their career.”
UC Law SF provides multiple ways for students to practice public interest work. Students can earn academic credit through in-house clinics, field-placement clinics, and externships, which allow them to work directly with clients, nonprofits, and public agencies. The Center for Social Justice – a new law school center that launched last fall — also supports student organizations and individual students doing public interest work in the community.
“This has been a great first year for the Center for Social Justice,” said Center Co-Director Brittany Glidden. “We hosted multiple events to help inform first-year students about the...
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