CALIFORNIA WESTERN’S CLINICS
COMMUNITY LAW PROJECT The Community Law Project (CLP) ended 2021 on a high note, having served hundreds of clients through a combination of live and virtual services while simultaneously training over 40 students to be effective and compassionate advocates for those in need. Under the supervision of our staff attorneys, our students successfully drafted letters to landlords convincing them to improve poor conditions in tenants’ apartments, guided consumers who have been defrauded through the paperwork to file a suit in small claims court, and helped young adults determine if they qualified for a renewal of their DACA status. Each CLP student completed their commitment to CLP through completion of a community education project. These projects ranged from the education through Zoom of 30 low income Latinx community members on their employment rights during the height of the pandemic to the creation of self-help videos for individuals representing themselves in court to the publication and disbursement of user-friendly Spanish / English materials to help victims of domestic violence understand resources that are available for them. We start 2022 with three to four live clinics
A California Western student assisting clients at Rosa Parks Elementary School.
each week, all of which continue and enhance our collaborations with non-legal partners as we provide holistic services to each individual who comes to us for assistance. We are excited about returning to more in-person interactions with our students (and in our new on-campus office space!) and more opportunities to educate our community in whatever format works best for each of the diverse communities we serve.
NEW MEDIA RIGHTS The New Media Rights (NMR) clinic returned to in-person clinic work this Spring. Clinic students provided services on the new KPBS documentary Skate SD: Building Skateboarding’s Future, which launched in November 2021. Students are currently assisting clients, including filmmakers, tech startups, musicians, illustrators, and authors. The clinic recently received two significant grants. One, Grant for the Web, is from the Mozilla
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New Media Rights staff and interns
Foundation and Creative Commons, and supports the clinic’s work with clients utilizing new forms of web monetization that avoid privacy-invasive
and advertising-reliant technologies. The other is with the Rose Foundation and supports the program’s work with clients around consumer technology.
