Category: PBI Blog
3L Mel Moeinvaziri, Spruance and Guiora interviewed by Deseret News on the immigration executive order
3L Mel Moeinvaziri, Professor Amos Guiora and PBI Director Jolynn Spruance were all interviewed by Deseret News on Trump’s executive order concerning immigrants and refugees. Moeinvaziri shared her families story who are immigrants from Iran and of their concern about the uncertainty of traveling back to care for any family members in need. Spruance spoke […]
Spruance Wins Utah State Bar’s 2014 Liberty Bell Award
On May 1, JoLynn Spruance, Director of the Pro Bono Initiative at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, won the Utah State Bar’s Liberty Bell Award, a recognition given by the Young Lawyers Division of the Bar to a non-lawyer for encouraging a greater respect for law and the courts, stimulating a […]
Immigration Training
PBI’s spring Immigration Training is scheduled for Friday-February 4, 2011…
Bankruptcy Training
Pro Bono Initiative’s spring Bankruptcy Training is scheduled for Friday-January 28th from 12:15 pm – 3 pm…
Alumni Reflection…
Skyler Anderson, Class of 2010: Participating in the Pro Bono Initiative at the S.J. Quinney College of Law has been…
Utah Crime Victims Legal Clinic seeking volunteers…
The Utah Crime Victims Legal Clinic (UCVLC) provides free legal representation to crime victims when victim’ rights issues are at stake…
Family Law Training…
Please join us for the Pro Bono Initiative’s Family Law Training. We’ve invited local family law attorneys to…
Guardian Ad Litem Training for 2 & 3L’s…
The Guardian Ad Litem’s Office is offering spring 2011 training for 2 & 3L’s…
1L PBI Orientation a success…
Eighty-five students from the Class of 2013 attended the Pro Bono Initiative’s orientation…
Clinical Program Applications Due Friday
With the exception of the Civil Clinics, whose applications are processed on a rolling basis, Friday March 19 is the deadline for the Judicial, Summer Appellate, or Environmental Clinics for Summer 2010. Applications may be submitted to the Clinical Program in Room 220 or the Clinical Program mailbox in the Front Office. All Judicial and Summer Appellate Clinic applicants must submit a resume and writing sample along with their application to the Clinical Program. Civil Clinic applications do not have a due date. However, students are accepted on a first-come first-served basis.