December 4, 2009 - LSIC
hosted
our
Staff,
Alumni, & Friends Annual
Holiday Party
and Recognition Ceremony for Former Executive Director Mary C.
Brittingham at LSIC offices. The event was a huge success with a
turnout of over 100 people. Click here
for pictures.
November
21, 2009 - LSIC participated in the Fannie Mae Help the
Homeless Walkathon
October 30, 2009 - LSIC
Announces
New
Interim
Executive
Director
October 29,
2009 - Mini Walkathon - LSIC partnered with Garfield
Elementary School, DC again this year. At the school LSIC staff
gave an educational presentation on homelessness and participated in
the school's mini-walk. Over 200 students and staff from Garfield
participated in the mini-walk program and activities.
October 21, 2009 -
2nd
Alumni
&
Friends
Happy
Hour
-
Nearly
40
alumni,
former
and
current
staff and friends of LSIC joined us at
our second happy hour at Bar Louie on October 21. Please check back
here or on our Facebook page for more happy hours and alumni events
scheduled throughout the year.
October 2009
- In the October issue of Washington Lawyer magazine, our former
Executive Director,
Mary Brittingham, addresses the impact the recession and the economy
has had on
LSIC, including our decision not to
have a Lever Dinner this year. To read the full article, please follow
this link
(scroll down to the 5th article in the Off Beat section).
September 2009 - LSIC
Board
of
Directors
Announces
Departure
of
Executive
Director,
Mary
C.
Brittingham
June 19, 2009 -
The first of many alumni happy hours to come was held at the local
watering hole, Fado's Irish Pub on Friday, June 19th, 2009. Please stay
tuned to our website for future events!
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June
2009
DCLSIC Featured
in Catalogue for Philanthropy
The Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater
Washington recently announced that D.C. Law Students in Court
Program, INc. has been chosen by reviewers for the 2009-10 Catalogue.
We were selected from a field of nearly 200 organizations. The
Catalogue calls D.C. Law Students in Court Program, Inc. "one of the
best small non-profits in Washington, D.C. region.
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May 2009 -
DCLSIC now has a facebook presence. Get connected to LSIC alumni and
friends here.
October 17, 2008
New home for LSIC!
After
a
decade
at
our
7th
Street
location,
we packed up our bags, our files
and moved across the street. Come by to visit us at our new offices
right
underneath the Chinatown archway!
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Celebrating 40 Years
On
Friday, October 3, 2008 D.C. Law Students in Court will be
celebrating its 40th
Anniversary at the 10th Annual Lever Awards Dinner at the JW Marriott
Hotel. Click here
for more details.
Press
Release September 8, 2008
July 1, 2008
D.C. Law Students in Court
Welcomes New Executive Director
The D.C. Law Students in
Court
Program (LSIC), one of the
city's oldest, biggest, and best-respected legal-service providers, has
announced
that Mary Clark Brittingham has agreed to serve as its Executive
Director. A veteran clinician at Georgetown
and George
Washington Universities,
an alumna of both AYUDA and the Legal Aid Society, and a former
President of
AYUDA's board, Ms. Brittingham brings a wealth of experience to the
position.
"We're thrilled to have Ms. Brittingham lead Law
Students in Court. She brings the
perfect combination of experience, commitment and energy to our
Executive
Director position," said Nancy Cantalupo, Chair of LSIC's board. Ms. Brittingham agrees: "I'm honored to
have the chance to contribute to a storied organization, and I look
forward to
both continuing and expanding LSIC's work bringing law students to
court to
engage in real-world litigation for our city's neediest."
D.C. Law Students in Court, now in its 40th Anniversary
Year, is an independent legal clinic in which law students from
American,
Catholic, George Washington, and Georgetown
University
provide legal assistance to
low-income residents of the District
of
Columbia. Each
year, LSIC trains top law students to
represent real people, in
real cases, in the courts of Washington. In doing so, LSIC works to fight the
consequences of poverty, to prevent homelessness, and to alleviate
inequalities
in the justice system.
2007
D.C. Law Students Presents 2007 Lever
Awards
The D.C. Law Students in Court Program, Inc.
(LSIC) presented the Lever Awards on October 4, 2007. The event
was written up in the Washington
Lawyer by D.C. Bar staff writer Kathryn Alfisi. Click
here for the article, the sixth item on the page. There is
also a list of the past honorees,
and photos
from the event.
D.C. Law Students
Increases Legal Services to the
Poor
D.C.
City
Council
appropriation
grant
expands
access
to
justice
to low-income clients
D.C. Law Students In Court Program, Inc. (LSIC)
has expanded its emergency
legal services to low income Washingtonians facing eviction proceedings
in Landlord-Tenant
Court thanks to an $85,800 grant from the
D.C. Bar
Foundation-administered special $2.89 million appropriation by the D.C.
City
Council. Grants were made in April to Law Students in Court and
14 other
organizations to increase legal assistance to the poor.
Ann Marie Hay,
Executive
Director
of
LSIC,
noted
“We
are
deeply
grateful to the D.C. Bar Foundation and
the City
Council for expanding the ability of legal services groups to provide
low-income people with competent counsel. We are using our grant
for an
additional attorney to serve as “Attorney of the Day” at Landlord-Tenant Court.
Thousands
of
low-income
Washington
residents face a personal crisis each year because of housing
problem.
The combination of reduced affordable
housing stock,
increased housing costs and gentrification, and decreased public
funding for
housing has been a disaster for the poor who are frequently living in
poor
conditions and are afraid of losing their homes, however substandard
they may
be. We helped more than 6,000 people last year, and eighty-five
percent
of
LSIC’s
Civil
Division’s
intake
involved
requests for help
with
housing matters; most retained cases involve defense of eviction
actions in the
Landlord and Tenant Court.
Looking
forward,
we
are
glad
that
the
Council
will renew the appropriation in
the next
budget cycle to continue to provide opportunities for access to
justice.”
Jenifer E.
Foster, JD, MSW, who started in
January 2008 will serve as the Attorney of the Day. She
has several years experience working in a
legal services environment and social services setting.
The Court Based Legal Services Project is a
collaborative effort with
Bread for the City, Legal Aid Society of the District of
Columbia,
and Neighborhood Legal Services. Law
Students
In Court is grateful to efforts of the D.C. Bar Foundation, D.C. Access
to Justice
Commission, and D.C. City Council for making this funding available to
respond to
the need of legal services for low-income persons.
2006
D.C. Law Students Presents 2006 Lever
Awards
The D.C. Law Students in Court Program, Inc.
(LSIC) presented the Lever Awards on October 5, 2006. The event
was written up in the Washington
Lawyer by D.C. Bar staff writer Kathryn Alfisi. Click
here for the article, the second item on the page. There is
also a list of the past honorees,
and photos
from the event.
2005
D.C. Law Students Receives $2.4 Million
Contribution
The D.C. Law Students in Court Program, Inc. (LSIC) received a
contribution
of $2.4 million from a cy pres award resulting from a court settlement.
The settlement, paid by Comcast, was a result of
the class action lawsuit Robert H. Bassin & Sherl Weems v.
District Cablevision. The $2.4 million comes from unclaimed
damages by class members. At the urging of the plaintiffs’ counsel,
Philip Friedman, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia ordered
that the money go to protect consumer interests, which was one of the
main goals of the litigation against Comcast for charging predatory
late fees. Friedman recommended that the court award the excess
funds
to four D.C. pro bono legal programs representing people of the
District: Law Students in Court, the Georgetown University Law
Center
Clinical Program, clinical programs at the George Washington
University’s School of Law, and Legal Counsel for the Elderly.
Almost
$10 million in support will be generated for the four clinics.
LSIC comprises law students from American
University, the Catholic University of America, George Washington
University, Georgetown University, and Howard University who help run
one of the oldest legal clinical programs in the District. The
clinic
helps defend low-income individuals in juvenile and misdemeanor
criminal cases, as well as assists people with small claims and
landlord–tenant matters.
“This award will help ensure the future of the
program by inaugurating the program’s first endowment,” said Ann Marie
Hay, executive director of LSIC. “It will also particularly
contribute
to our work helping the District’s most vulnerable consumers. We
are
grateful to Philip Friedman for proposing Law Students in Court as a
recipient and to the Superior Court for approving the recommendation.”
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