In 1993, Cheryl A. Sharp ’93 followed through on her longstanding plan to do advocacy work when she signed on as a law clerk with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO).
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Students in the Law School's Poverty Law Clinic are placed with Connecticut legal services programs where, under the supervision of practicing attorneys, they work cases on behalf of low-income clients.
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The Criminal Clinics aim to develop a student's professional and technical competence so that he or she can practice at the highest standards of criminal defense lawyering. Our clients' cases present student attorneys with issues common in the practice of criminal law.
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In the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, law students handle every aspect of representation in high-stakes cases that determine whether a client who has fled political, religious or other persecution in his or her home country will be granted asylum in the United States.
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The Energy and Environmental Law Practice Clinic focuses on developing students' lawyering skills, judgment and professional responsibility, as well as deepening their understanding of environmental law and practice.
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Staff AttorneyConnecticut Veterans Legal CenterWhen Cindy Johnson ’11 began her studies in the evening division at UConn Law in 2007, she had 20-plus years of experience in software development on her résumé and a self-described “dream” of being a public interest lawyer.
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Vice President and Corporate CounselFeld EntertainmentWhen Emily Roisman '85 left her practice as a partner to join the circus she was not pursuing a childhood dream to be a tight-rope walker. Rather, Roisman went to work for Feld Entertainment®, the world’s leading producer of live family entertainment, including Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus®.
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Executive DirectorMorgan StanleyWhen Joseph C. Steffan '94 entered the Law School in 1991, he was in the midst of a public battle over his discharge in 1987 from the U.S. Naval Academy based solely on a truthful acknowledgement of his sexual orientation. Steffan shares his thoughts on the repeal of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
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Associate ProfessorDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of MedicineMarcia M. Boumil '83 dedicates her very busy professional life to important issues at the intersection of health and law.
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Student Focus
StudentMartha Perez ’12 wanted to be a public interest lawyer since her middle school years, when an immigration attorney helped prevent the deportation of her family after a bogus attorney duped her father out of $10,000.
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AssociateGarcia & Milas, P.CIt took Michael Lynch '12 four-and-a-half years to earn his J.D. from UConn Law - and for good reason. While his classmates were finishing their course work, Lynch was in Laghman Province, Afghanistan commanding a 180-person infantry company in support of Operation Enduring Freedom X.
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MayorCity of HartfordAt the age of fifteen, Pedro E. Segarra '85 left his mother and five siblings and moved - by himself - to Hartford to escape the gang violence that took the lives of two of his good friends in the Bronx neighborhood his family had settled in after leaving Puerto Rico in 1966.
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Assistant ProfessorUniversity of California, Irvine, School of LawIn 2001, Shauhin Talesh '00, LL.M. '01 fulfilled a dream when he accepted an assistant professorship at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law. It was a dream, he says, that began to take shape during his very first class at UConn Law.
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Superior Court JudgeState of ConnecticutWhen Judge Sheridan Moore ’78 was an undergraduate majoring in education at the University of Bridgeport, she had a close friend interested in going to law school who challenged Moore to do the same.
