February 4, 2008
Touro Law Students Provide Testimonials of Recent
Volunteer Work in Katrina Affected Region
Touro Law Students Share Experiences and Ask for Fellow Students
to Join in a Volunteer Effort to Help Those Still in Need
Central Islip, NY – Last month, approximately 20 Touro Law
students spent winter break in the Gulf Coast, offering services to a region
and community still in desperate need after being devastated by Hurricane
Katrina in 2005. At Touro Law Center on February 6 at 3:00 p.m., these students will
share their experiences with fellow students, faculty and staff to generate
awareness of the still desperate situation that exists in the area and ask for
help.
“This is a really important cause that I care deeply about,” said Ray Malone, a
third-year law student who is also president of the Student Hurricane Chapter
at Touro Law. “These people need assistance and every volunteer can make a
tangible difference. It is a life-changing experience for everyone involved.”
In January, six students worked with Common Ground doing legal research out of
a converted old school bus parked next to a building with wireless Internet.
Three students worked with the New Orleans Public Defender’s Office, making
court appearances with defendants twice a day. Four students knocked on doors
conducting a survey regarding the housing crises. Four students worked with the
Public Advocacy Center assisting in a wide variety of areas mostly
concentrating on the lack of affordable housing and the city’s destruction of
structurally sound low income housing developments. Three students worked with
an environmental law firm addressing that aspect of the storm’s aftermath.
Every student has a story to tell about a difference they made.
At the event, students will share testimonials of their volunteer work,
including photos and PowerPoint presentations from each group, followed by a
question-and-answer period.
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Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center has a new 185,000-square-foot,
state-of-the-art law campus adjacent to and working with a state and a federal
courthouse in Central Islip, New York. Touro’s new campus provides a one-of-a
kind learning model for law students, combining a rigorous curriculum taught by
expert faculty with a practical courtroom experience. Touro, which has a
student body of approximately 750 and an alumni base of nearly 5,000, offers
full- and part-time J.D. programs as well as graduate law programs.
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