Immigration law clinic to open

Wayne State University Law School has announced the addition of a new law clinic aimed at providing students with practical experience and serving the greater community. The Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic, led by Assistant Professor (Clinical) Rachel Settlage, will be offered starting in winter 2010. The clinic will provide students with the opportunity to represent individual clients seeking immigration benefits including asylum and visas for victims of trafficking as well as help clients who obtain such relief with family reunification, adjustment of status and, eventually, naturalization. Students will represent indigent or low-income clients who could not otherwise afford legal assistance and will be able to work on a wide variety of immigration cases and gain experience working with federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Immigration Courts. Students in the clinic will also have the opportunity to be involved with local community outreach and informational programs. "Detroit has an incredibly diverse immigrant population," Settlage said, "and students will be exposed to both cross-cultural lawyering and the importance of representing persons or organizations otherwise unable to pay for needed legal services." Though the new clinic has only recently been announced, there is already a great deal of interest from students. "I'm thrilled to be able to participate in the new Asylum and Immigration Clinic during my last semester of law school," said student Elisa Gomez. "I began law school with an interest in immigration: to me, the current national battle over immigrant rights is the newest facet of the United States' on-going civil rights movement. "Wayne Law also offers students the Disability Law Clinic, the Small Business Enterprises and Non-profit Corporations Clinic, the Environmental Law Clinic, the Child Advocacy Clinic and Criminal Appellate Practice. The Free Legal Aid Clinic, Wayne Law's oldest clinic, is operated independently by students with lawyer supervision. Published: Wed, Dec 2, 2009

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