Law schools are answering Justice Department’s call for eviction help

(Reuters) – Mere hours after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a call Monday for the legal profession to step up and help those facing eviction, Randy Hertz, New York University School of Law’s director of clinics, put out a query on a listserv for clinical professors across the country: Would anyone be interested in joining forces to share notes and ideas on how law students can get involved?

They were. Within two days, Hertz had heard from clinicians and externship supervisors at about 40 law schools and another 20 or so organizations that deal with housing issues, saying they wanted to join in a national planning group focused on how law students can help tenants.

“A lot of law schools already have housing law or housing rights clinics or externships and most of them are already helping tenants in this eviction crisis,” Hertz said in an interview with Reuters. “Our planning group is designed to help all of them hear about strategies that are working in other places, so they can expand what they are doing and be more effective.”

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