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Our Appellate Litigation Clinic capped off the fall semester with a major victory in the Supreme Court of Ohio: in a 4–3 decision, the state’s highest court reversed lower-court decisions that deprived the client of the right to withdraw a guilty plea upon discovering evidence that the State had wit...

Congratulations to our twelve Community Development Clinic interns, who just finished a semester completing dozens of legal projects for Cleveland area community organizations and social enterprises. They renegotiated leases, researched and answered tax exemption questions, guided boards of director...

The First Amendment Clinic is pleased to report that its client, Cleveland State University’s student newspaper The Cauldron, has been dismissed from a lawsuit brought by local restaurant Burgers 2 Beer. The restaurant alleged thatThe Cauldron tortiously interfered with its business expectancies and...

Third year law students enrolled in the IPVC Clinic provide legal advice and assistance in protecting intellectual property for small businesses, the local community and even alumni. Michael Zhou is holding for his soon to be world famous SEOUL CITY WINGS™, along with their KORE TACOS™ and DRIPP CAK...

Consistently ranked one of the top law schools for practical training (#5 in the Spring 2022 issue of preLaw magazine), CWRU School of Law has long recognized that training students to be practice ready is at the heart of what a law school does. LLEAP, our legal writing program, is the foundation o...

Students in the Kramer Law Clinic’s Second Chance Reentry Clinic have been fortunate to hit the ground running by arguing motions and questioning witnesses in court just one month into the fall semester. On September 12th, Reentry Clinic students Maggie Kinkopf and Magda Phillips attended hearings ...

Third-year law student Emma Geesaman won first place in the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law for her paper, “The Ownership of Fossils Found on Private Property: Are They Part of the Mineral Estate or the Surface Estate?” The paper, which centers around t...

Students enrolled in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic during the academic year receive their JD degrees in May, but the work of the clinic continues over the summer. During the summer of 2022, the clinic hired eight law clerks, including spring start and rising 2L and 3L students. Students were taske...

The CWRU Health Law Clinic hit the ground running with the first of seven Social Security Appeal Hearings it has scheduled for this semester. Melanie Fuenmayor, a 3L enrolled in the clinic, started working on her case before the school year began to prepare to be the first chair at the hearing. He...

Recently, the Community Development Clinic at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law has aimed to devote more of its legal services to nonprofits and social enterprises in neighborhoods close to the university’s campus. One example is the Clinic’s work with the Hough Community Land Trust ...