Law Students Start Innovative Mobile Legal Aid Clinic to Help Veterans in Michigan
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A new program designed by University of Detroit Mercy Law School students will benefit low-income veterans throughout Michigan. The law school students will travel around the state in an RV to literally take legal services to veterans in need of assistance. Law schools around the country have been stepping up efforts to help veterans, but this innovative model is the first to actually travel to veteran centers and shelters to provide legal help. The University is paying approximately $100,000 to start the clinic, with the goal of having state and private donors eventually provide financial support for the program as well. There is significant excitement from the veteran community about the launch of the mobile clinic in May. Tyrone Chapman, the director of a transitional facility for veterans who are homeless, says, To know [that the law school] is going to do this sort of mobile legal clinic is certainly something we could benefit from.