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Sweet Clemency for Anthony Covert
Anthony Covert celebrates with clinic students.

Sweet Clemency for Anthony Covert

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A long-time client of the Tools for Social Change Clinic was granted clemency and freed from incarceration in June 2024.

Refuge and Relief
A man carrying a sleeping bag in front of a tent at the Riverton Church encampment.

Refuge and Relief

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The Immigration Law Clinic and students from SAI Justice rallied the ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ community to support King County’s asylum-seeker crisis at a local church.

Appellate Advocacy as a Capstone
Walker McCusick and Sally Walker

Appellate Advocacy as a Capstone

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Walker McKusick, J.D. ‘24, and Sally Walker, J.D. ’24, reflect on their transformative journey through the Ninth Circuit Pro Bono Appellate Advocacy Clinic.

County audit details grim conditions at Capitol Hill youth jail
The Patricia Hall Clark Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) in Seattle, Feb. 5, 2020. (Matt M. McKnight/Cascade PBS)

County audit details grim conditions at Capitol Hill youth jail

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Young detainees report concerns with drinking-water quality, long periods without visitors, lack of substance-abuse treatment and staffing shortages. Professor Kim Ambrose, director of the Race and Justice Clinic, is quoted. (Source: Cascade PBS)

Dean Lawson on Alternative Pathways to Licensure
Dean Tamara F. Lawson

Dean Lawson on Alternative Pathways to Licensure

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ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ Dean Tamara F. Lawson tells the ABA Journal that supervised practice "is more closely linked to competence than any 100 multiple-choice questions will ever be."