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Pro Bono Day Clinic Helps Area Residents Stay Housed, Seattle University School Of Law

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The Lawyer: Fall 2021, Seattle University School Of Law

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Session 1: Access To Legal Services - The Role Of Innovation And Technology, Steven Bender, Stacy Butler, Anna Carpenter, Michael Cherry, Sands Mckinley, Kimball Dean Parker, Miguel Willis

SITIE Symposiums

This expert panel is addressing access to justice problems. People without access to lawyers and legal services suffer in many ways not limited to divorce, domestic violence, and educational roadblocks. This panel will ask what lawyers can do to help, in what ways can technology help or replace lawyers in the delivery of legal and non-legal services. It will also explore different legal services being offered by individuals who do not have a JD, online firms, and developing technology in a law firm owed subsidiary. There are six panelists who are broken into two categories: (1) the innovation and delivery …

Opening Session, Annette Clark, Steven Bender

SITIE Symposiums

This year's conference focuses on the social good, highlighting three access barriers fundamental in law and society - access to legal services (and more generally, justice), access to health and health care during the COVID-19 pandemic, and access to financial services for the unbanked or underbanked.

Equal Injustice For All: High Quality Self-Representation Does Not Ensure A Matter Is “Fairly Heard”, Jona Goldschmidt

Seattle University Law Review Online

Self-represented litigants (SRLs) are generally less successful in court than parties with legal representation. Some access-to-justice programs view self-representation as a skill that can be taught and will lead to more success in case outcomes, but Jona Goldschmidt pushes back against this assumption. Goldschmidt argues that even high functioning, educated, and computer savvy SRLs are at a disadvantage in the courtroom when courts strictly enforce rules and do not offer reasonable accommodations.

In this Article, Goldschmidt evaluates three cases that illustrate expert SRLs’ challenges in the courtroom, and he argues that ridged rule enforcement and failure to accommodate lead to …

Rebalancing Bracker Forty Years Later, William Mcclure, Thomas E. Mcclure

American Indian Law Journal

This Article examines forty years of federal and state courts’ application of the Bracker balancing test, which considers whether a state tax is preempted when assessed against a non-Indian on tribal land. First, this Article chronicles the history and progression of the Bracker balancing test in the Supreme Court. Second, this Article cross-tabulates judicial findings of no preemption with key characteristics of all lower court state taxation decisions that cite Bracker. Third, this Article reports the results of regression analyses that reveal lower courts were less likely to find preemption of cigarette taxes, more likely to find state fuel …

Native Grad's Law School Journey Is A Story Of Resilience, Seattle University School Of Law

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A 2020 Public Health Crisis—But Not The One You’Re Thinking Of: Why Gun Violence Has Spiked During The Covid-19 Pandemic & What We Can Do About It, Dominique Davis

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Seattle U Law Names New Acting Director Of Acclaimed Legal Clinic, Seattle University School Of Law

News Center Articles

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Children Beyond Borders: Extending Protections For Abandoned, Abused, And Neglected Unaccompanied Children And Youth, Rosa Aguilar

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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The Lawyer: Spring 2021, Seattle University School Of Law

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Student Life E-Newsletter March 22, 2021, Seattle University School Of Law Student Life

Student Life E-Newsletters

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New Attorneys Join Incubator Program, Seattle University School Of Law

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Dean's Spotlight January 25, 2021, Seattle University School Of Law Dean

Dean's Spotlight

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Race And Washington's Criminal Justice System: 2021 Report To The Washington Supreme Court, Task Force 2.0: Race And The Criminal Justice System

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

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Seattle University Law Review

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Do It Yourself Legal Services? Domestic Violence Victims May Depend On It, Sabrina Marquez

Seattle University Law Review

This Note will address how encouraging nonlawyer Internet programs to engage in limited areas frequently considered the “practice of law” will increase the ability of vulnerable groups, especially victims of domestic violence, to receive crucial—and potentially lifesaving—legal assistance.

Part I will outline the rise of Internet legal service providers (ILSPs), who have innovated software programs that help clients fill out and file a wide assortment of legal documents, as well as the negative response these services have received from state bar associations and the wider legal community. Part II will discuss why a different method of providing legal assistance is …

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Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Dean's Spotlight December 14, 2020, Seattle University School Of Law Dean

Dean's Spotlight

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Law Students Mark Pro Bono Week By Helping Clients With Housing Challenges, Seattle University School Of Law

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The Lawyer: Fall 2020, Seattle University School Of Law

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Alum Earns Fellowship To Help Victims Of Elder Abuse, Seattle University School Of Law

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Fellowship Provides Legal Aid To Pandemic's Hard-Hit Farmworkers, Seattle University School Of Law

News Center Articles

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Autonomous Vehicle Manufacturers: Applying A Common Carrier Liability Scheme To Autonomous Vehicle Manufacturers—And Why Elon Musk Will Be Haunted By His Words, Alejandro Monarrez

Seattle University Law Review Online

The modes and levels of vehicle automation have advanced over the years with the goal of making driving safer. Features like self-steering, lane assist, and blind-spot warning are designed to assist drivers in operating their vehicles. However, the emergence of autonomous vehicle technology self-driving capabilities raises new questions about tort liability.

Since 2016, there have been numerous fatalities involving autonomous vehicles. In this Note, Alejandro Monarrez explores how we should assess liability in autonomous vehicle-related accidents when vehicles are in full automation mode. Monarrez similarly argues the common carrier liability scheme first conceptualized by Dylan LeValley in Autonomous Vehicle Liability—Application …

Two 2020 Grads Receive Equal Justice Works Fellowship, Seattle University School Of Law

News Center Articles

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Mapping A Way Through Disaster And Emergency Issues Involving Indian Country And The Importance Of Legal Preparedness, Brian T. Candelaria

American Indian Law Journal

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The Lawyer: Spring 2020, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

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Attorney–Client Privilege In Bad Faith Insurance Claims: The Cedell Presumption And A Necessary National Resolution, Klien Hilliard

Seattle University Law Review

Attorney–client privilege is one of the most important aspects of our legal system. It is one of the oldest privileges in American law and is codified both at the national and state level. Applying to both individual persons and corporations, this expanded privilege covers a wide breadth of clients. However, this broad privilege can sometimes become blurred in relationships between the corporation and the individuals it serves. Specifically, insurance companies and those they cover have complex relationships, as the insurer possesses a quasi-fiduciary relationship in relation to the insured. This type of relationship requires that the insurer act in good …

The Lawyer: Fall 2019, Seattle University School Of Law

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Fall 2019 Alumni magazine for Seattle University School of Law. Featuring the 10-year anniversary of the Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, an essay on modernizing labor law by Professor Charlotte Garden, details about our new online degree program, and much more.

Please note: The photo of Xaxira Velasco Ponce De Leon '19 on page 8 in this digital edition did not appear in the print edition. The correct identity of the graduate in the print edition photo is Frances Zars '19.

Student Life E-Newsletter September 09, 2019, Seattle University School Of Law Student Life

Student Life E-Newsletters

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