50 years after serving in Vietnam, one of the Veterans Advocacy Project’s (VAP) clients, “Bill,” received Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation benefits for the injuries he received in the country.
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Congratulations to University of Denver Sturm College of Law Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Inclusiveness and Professor Catherine Smith; alumna, immigration attorney and founder of Colorado Asylum Center, Christina Brown, JD’13; and Denver Law student, Hayden DePorter, 2L, on receiving honors at the 2019 Colorado LGBT Bar Association Awards and Scholarship Dinner.
Doug Brown (Northwestern Law School, JD’70), retired chief attorney for the Colorado state legislature and member of the Mentor Advisory Board, has been volunteering his time to the Professional Mentoring Program since its inception.
Goldhammer offers his mentees a holistic approach to the mentoring process. He not only guides students on the path to their legal careers but also believes in providing a support system and sense of community to those who reach out to him.
When Tiffany McCoy approached the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Civil Rights Clinic (CRC) she had one simple, but incredibly meaningful, request: to receive original greeting cards while incarcerated.
Earlier this year, the Office for Victims Program (OVP), a unit of the Division of Criminal Justice within the Colorado Department of Public Safety, announced a $2 million grant to create the Colorado Civil Justice Corps (CCJC) Fellowship. The program helps Colorado nonprofits access legal resources while also launching the careers of five University of Denver Sturm College of Law class of 2019 graduates focused on public interest law.
When you ask Alison Heinen, third-year law student at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, her professional goals, working toward the public good is at the foundation of all her plans.
Catalyzed by a $414,000 grant from The Gateway Fund II of The Denver Foundation, and a subsequent $25,000 grant from The Denver Foundation’s Immigrant Legal Services Fund, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law has launched a new Immigration Justice Project designed to expand the provision of legal services to individuals facing immigration-related legal challenges, heighten awareness of issues at the intersection of immigration and criminal law, and jumpstart careers in the public interest focused on immigration law.
