The University of Connecticut School of Law has partnered with Disability Rights Connecticut to provide legal advocacy for people with disabilities through a clinic.
The Disability Rights Clinic will give students the opportunity to help clients who need assistance with legal issues in housing, employment and health care. Students in the clinic will be supervised by Deborah Dorfman, the executive director of Disability Rights Connecticut, and other lawyers from the organization, according to a UConn School of Law press release.
“We’re delighted to collaborate in this exciting partnership,” said Dean Eboni Nelson. “It will allow our students to share in the deeply meaningful and impactful work that Disability Rights Connecticut does in the community while they learn about a very important area of the law.”
Disability Right Connecticut provides legal advocacy to people with disabilities. The nonprofit organization helps with issues of abuse, neglect and discrimination according to its website.
Four students are currently enrolled in the clinic for the Fall semester. The students will gain skills through hands-on training and learn from Dorfman in a weekly seminar.
“We are excited and honored to partner with the University of Connecticut School of Law on the Disability Law Clinic and are deeply appreciative of the student’s interest and time working to advocate the rights of people with disabilities,” Dorman said. “This opportunity is of enormous benefit to DRCT and its clients and constituents as it enables DRCT to expand its current advocacy capacity.”
The school offers six partnerships and five in-house clinics in addition to the new clinic.
