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- Loan Repayment Assistance Program
- Graduates of USC Law School who are employed by nonprofit public service agencies and government law offices and are earning below a certain salary are given financial assistance in order to repay student loan debts. The program cannot receive direct requests for services.
Contact: Mary Bingham, 213-740-2523
Email: mbingham@law.usc.edu
- PILF Pro Bono Clinics
- Law students volunteer for a pro bono campaign. These students perform pro bono work on behalf of clients associated with local nonprofit legal services organizations and public interest law offices. Students are urged to perform a minimum of 35 hours of pro bono work. Organized by the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF).
Contact: Melissa Balaban, 213-740-7397
Email: mbalaban@law.usc.edu
- Public Interest Law Foundation
- This student-run organization raises funds to provide summer grants to 20-25 USC law students to perform full-time, public interest work during the summer and one full-time, graduate, public interest fellowship.
Contact: Melissa Balaban, 213-740-7397
Email: mbalaban@law.usc.edu
- Street Law High School Outreach
- USC law students do outreach to local high schools, serving as guest lecturers, mentors and hosts for school visits to campus. At Manual Arts High School, the USC Street Law Foundation Program is funded bya USC Neighborhood Outreach grant.
Ages Served: 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Thomas Griffith, 213-740-2533
Email: lilytabby@aol.com or mjones@us
- USC Law School Domestic Violence Clinic
- The Domestic Violence Clinic specializes in providing direct representation to victims of domestic violence in restraining order hearings and other family law matters. In addition, the clinic works in collaboration with the USC School of Social Work and the LAC+USC Hospital's Violence Intervention Program to provide holistic services to its clients to help them stay free of a violent environment.
Contact: Martha Matthews, 213-745-3600
Email: mmatthew@law.usc.edu
- USC Law School Employer Legal Advice Clinic
- Clinical course offered by the USC Law School in which law students give advice in the area of employment law to nonprofit organizations.
Contact: Noel M. Ragsdale, 213-740-2530
Email: nragsdal@law.usc.edu
- USC Law School Immigration Clinic
- The clinic provides free legal representation to non-citizens who are under deportation proceedings or who are seeking certain forms of relief from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly INS). The clinic focuses its resources primarily on victims of torture who are seeking asylum and victims of domestic violence who are married to U.S. citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents.
Contact: Niels Frenzen, 213-821-5987
Email: nfrenzen@law.usc.edu
- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
- Members of the USC Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi organize a series of free income tax assistance workshops during the month of April at several community locations.
Contact: , 213-740-4809
Email: acctsoc@usc.edu
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