Impact Beyond the Classroom

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Supporting Families: Carolina Law’s Family Defense Clinic

Linzy Mahoney ’27 dropped all her papers in front of the judge on her first day in court. By year’s end, she was winning objections against seasoned attorneys as a student parent defender in Carolina Law’s new Family Defense Clinic.

Impact Beyond the Classroom

Helping Outer Banks Entrepreneurs Navigate the Law

Carolina Law students are helping coastal business owners form LLCs, file trademarks and avoid costly mistakes. See how a chance discovery on vacation led to the Institute for Innovation’s growing partnership with Outer Banks Entrepreneurs.

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Impact Beyond the Classroom

50 Years Later, a Marine Finally Gets His Honors

The Navy rarely upgrades a discharge to fully honorable. Carolina Law’s Military and Veterans Law Clinic secured exactly that for a Vietnam veteran, transforming his widow’s life and fulfilling his wish for a military burial.

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a group of law students, alumni, and professors standing together with the family of the late Raymond Dick

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Unconventional Support Benefits Clinic

Karl Gwaltney ’12 found an unusual way to give back to Carolina Law. His class action settlement over illegal medical records fees named the Economic Justice Clinic as its cy pres recipient, and he hopes other alumni will follow his lead.

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