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Beverly Monroe was sentenced to 20 years for a murder she did not commit — a murder, in fact, that never occurred. Monroe told her story at an event sponsored by the Innocence Project Clinic and the Virginia Innocence Project Student Group.

Starting this fall, the Law School will offer a clinic designed to help low-income families resolve legal issues through mediation or other options outside of a courtroom.

More than a dozen Law School students and graduates will spread throughout the United States and the world this summer to undertake prestigious internships that address the world’s most pressing human rights issues.

Using the scientific method to scrutinize forensic investigative techniques would improve the criminal justice system and cut down on wrongful convictions, the recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law said Monday.

Skadden program administrator Susan Butler Plum spoke to students March 24. The Skadden Fellowship Foundation provides funding for law students who wish to devote their professional lives to providing legal services to the poor, the elderly, the homeless and the disabled.

U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello of Virginia's 5th District delivered the opening remarks at the 10th Annual Conference on Public Service and the Law.

Students can make their law careers most meaningful by following a path in public service, public-interest litigator Alan Morrison said Friday during the opening of the 10th Annual Conference on Public Service and the Law.

Mahoney spoke about the importance of pro bono work at the Pro Bono Program orientation Sept. 8.

Robert Temple, M.D., director for Medical Policy for the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research discusses drug safety.

From the initial $25 to $100 pledges from students in 1981 to today’s quarter-million dollar fundraising goliath aimed not only at students but at faculty, alumni, and the legal community, the effort to support students pursuing public-interest jobs during the summer has come a long way in its 25-year history at the Law School.

Participants talk about their experience in the Housing Law Clinic. Supervised by staff at the Legal Aid Justice Center, the yearlong clinic combines classroom meetings with practical experience working with clients in the Charlottesville community.

Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine offered law students guidance on how to pursue a career in public service during his keynote address at the eighth annual student-organized Conference on Public Service and the Law in Caplin Auditorium Saturday.

Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin spoke on seven principles students interested in public service should live by at the public interest student group kick-off meeting.

Public service lawyers are the perfect models for how to face the decisive issues of the 21st century while upholding the values and ideas of the Constitution, said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Justice Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court of t he United States , speaks at the Fifth Annual Conference on Public Service & the Law