Community Service
Sustaining Partners: Gonzaga Law Students Reach Out, Connect, Serve Community From sealing juvenile records to preparing estate planning
in October. Students also served low-income clients at
documents for veterans, Gonzaga Law students completed
family law clinics by helping to develop a new citizenship
more than 12,000 service hours for Pro Bono Distinction
clinic to serve Spokane’s refugee population.
during the last academic year through Gonzaga’s Center for Law in Public Service.
Student planners organized a weekly social justice speaker series called Public Service, Brown Bag and
Gonzaga Law students were honored by the Washington
Justice (PBJ) forums for the Gonzaga Law community.
State Bar Foundation for connecting middle-income
PBJ topics included unaccompanied minors in
households to affordable legal help through the Moderate
immigration law; race equity and the criminal justice
Means Program, in collaboration with the Washington State
system, Spokane’s Community Court; post-incarceration
Bar Association and the three Washington law schools. It is
barriers to re-entry; the school-to-prison pipeline;
administered through GU’s CLIPS office. Last academic year,
Japanese-American internment; Spokane’s Smart Justice
40 Gonzaga students fielded more than 1,000 requests for
movement, and many others.
assistance, completed 740 intake interviews and referred 226 cases to private attorneys.
CLIPS connected students with several social justice leaders in Washington state. Fifteen Gonzaga Law
Thomas More students partnered with legal services
students, faculty and staff attended the annual Goldmark
organization TeamChild to assist Spokane’s Juvenile Record
Luncheon in Seattle, and several Gonzaga Law students
Sealing Clinic for a third year. Students worked with
attended the Washington State Access to Justice
attorney volunteers to help nearly 20 pro se litigants seal
Conference in Wenatchee, where 2L student Christena
their eligible juvenile offenses at five clinics throughout the
Georgas presented.
year.
For more information about pro bono and social justice
Gonzaga Law students teamed with local attorneys and
initiatives, please contact CLIPS Assistant Director
organizations to offer free legal assistance. They also joined
Catherine Brown at (509) 313-3688 or brownc@
the Spokane County Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Division
lawschool.gonzaga.edu.
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to present the third annual Washington Veteran Wills Clinic
Student voluteers, sitting: Sally Winn (2L), Luke Eaton (3L), Catherine DiSarno (3L), Lovel Tokic (3L), Anni Glogovac (1L). Standing: Washington Supreme Court Justice Steven González, Angela Jones (2L), Dean Jane Korn, CLIPS Assistant Director Catherine Brown, Cara Verhaeghe (1L), Mary-Ruth Brennan (3L), Shelby Winters (1L), Guin Raikes (2L), CLIPS Director Laurie Powers.