Volunteer Law Clerk Spring

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Volunteer Law Clerk, Winter, Spring

The law clerks gain experience with: interviewing clients and consumers; providing information on self-advocacy; legal research and writing; representation at mediation and administrative hearings at school districts, universities, regional centers, Social Security and others; providing assistance to people with psychiatric disabilities who are incarcerated in psychiatric institutions to ensure the enforcement of their federal, state, constitutional and statutory rights; assisting clients file charges of discrimination with US Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Education, US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; assisting in the investigation of serious, systemic and potentially life-threatening abuse and neglect in state and private facilities serving people with psychiatric and developmental disabilities; conducting trainings on the law and multi-cultural outreach.

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Company info

Disability Rights California
Bridget Claycomb
1330 Broadway Suite 500
Oakland
California
United States 94612-2509
Phone : 510-267-1200
Website : http://www.disabilityrightsca.org/