Robert M. Cover Public Interest Law Retreat

Cover Retreat Friends - does anyone know about humanitarian parole? Need some advice for a friend who was granted it by USCIS and then denied entry by CBP. Happy to get into details on a call. Let me know. Thanks!!

Registration is OPEN for the 30th Annual Cover Retreat!! Spread the word! Register NOW! https://www.law.yale.edu/coverretreat17

We're so excited to announce the dates for the 30th Annual Robert M. Cover Retreat: March 3-5, 2017!

Overburdened Public Defender's Office Orders Missouri Governor to Defend Poor Client

thanks to Lauren Jones for sharing this one!

gawker.com Taking advantage of a law that allows him to assign any case to any member of the state bar, Missouri’s chief public defender, Michael Barrett, appointed Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (a fiscally conservative Democrat finishing his second term) as the defense attorney of a poor client this week, citin...

Feds disqualify ABA and others from loan forgiveness program

Looks like 501c3 organizations are still safe... but if your employer has both a c3 and c4 or c6, make sure you're very clear about where you work... and don't count on loan forgiveness if you work for a c4 (lobbying org) or c6 (union/trade association)!

abajournal.com Part of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007, the program automatically includes 501(c)(3) employers. Other nonprofits with different tax statuses can meet eligibility criteria if they “provide

Here's some pretty cool news: 2015 Cover Retreat Alum Kelsey Skaggs is an ECHOING GREEN FINALIST! 2000 applicants. 50 finalists. Congratulations Kelsey!! (and GOOD LUCK!!)

She started Climate Defense Project: Design a new legal field of movement-based climate change lawyering by defending climate activists and advancing climate law beyond traditional environmental theories.

(and she says she learned about Echoing Green at the Cover Retreat Fellowships Panel!!)

Robert M. Cover Public Interest Law Retreat's cover photo

29th Annual Robert M. Cover Retreat (2016)

Thank you to all who attended the 29th Annual Robert M. Cover Retreat this weekend. It was a great event, turned amazing by all of you! We urge you to remember the theme "Winning the Social Justice Race: Lawyering Toward a Revolution" in your every day activities, studies, and practice!

Fellowships | National Lawyers Guild

One of the new 2016 Haywood Burns Fellows will be joining us at this year's Retreat. Congrats Crystal Peters of Brooklyn Law!

nlg.org The Haywood Burns Fellowships are designed to encourage students to work in the NLG’s tradition of “people's lawyering." The program exists to help students apply their talents and skills to find creative ways to use the law to advance justice. Burns Fellowships provoke law students to question trad…

Black Law Students at Georgetown: We are shaken and angry at conservatives’ response to Scalia’s...

A powerful letter by Georgetown Law's BLSA chapter.

washingtonpost.com The Black Law Students Association adds their voice to the debate at Georgetown Law over how and whether to mourn the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Attending this year's Retreat? Request a 1 on 1 yet?

**Can we add students from a FEW more?** We've got students from these 29 schools registered: Albany Law, Baltimore Law, Boston College Law, Boston University Law, Brooklyn Law, Campbell Law, Cornell Law, CUNY Law, Fordham Law, Georgetown Law, Maine Law, Maryland Law, NCCU Law, New England Law - Boston, New York Law School, Northeastern Law, Pace Law, Penn State Law, Roger Williams Law, Seton Hall Law, St. John's Law, UCONN Law, UDC Law, University of Pittsburgh Law, Vermont Law, Villanova Law, West Virginia Law, Western New England Law, Yale Law.

We're now at 147 students from 29 schools. We can still accommodate a few more students if you know anyone interested in attending!

UDC David A. Clarke School of Law

Naji will be joining us at the Retreat next week!!

“When you go into Scalia’s thinking as an ‘originalist,’ meaning someone who interprets the Constitution by divining the intent of the Framers at the time they wrote it, you can see Scalia virtually channeling 18th-century social and political sentiment on race,” said [Naji] Mujahid, president of the UDC chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. “If you want to go back 200 years and commune with the spirit of slave owners and ask them, ‘What do you think of black people?’ Or, ‘How do you feel about affirmative action?’ what the hell do you think they’re going to say?”