On December 4th, the FIU Law Community Lawyering Clinic was featured in the FIU Magazine story “Program fosters change, embraces people with developmental disabilities.” FIU Embrace connects people who have developmental disabilities and their families with faculty and law students at FIU’s Community Lawyering Clinic. FIU Law’s Community Lawyering Clinic and FIU Embrace have developed a strong partnership, where future lawyers who are supervised by an attorney receive valuable training assisting FIU Embrace. Senior Associate Dean for Experiential Learning at the College of Law and the Director of FIU Law’s Embrace partnership Michelle D. Mason was a quoted on the clinic’s partnership and how it supports the community.
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