LULAC Legal Clinic-Volunteer Coordinators

Dear TMSL Law Student,

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Law Student Chapter #4900 is planning an extraordinary event on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at the Ripley House: the LULAC LEGAL CLINIC!

Our LULAC LEGAL CLINIC will provide free legal services at a one-day clinic targeting the Latino community of Houston, Texas regarding immigration law, criminal law, property law (including housing and landlord/ tenant issues), employment/ labor law, and family law issues.

We will be interviewing 1Ls, 2Ls, & 3Ls for the following positions:

VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS- Non-attorney Volunteers
VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS- Attorney Volunteers
Volunteer Committee Members

We are looking for outgoing, professional, organized team-players who will take the lead in recruiting attorney and non-attorney volunteers (law students, translators, etc.) from the community.

Interviews will occur on Thursday, February 26, 2009 from 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. You may sign up online at the HLSA TWEN page for your 15-minute time slot.

We expect this event to be to be heavily publicized, to garner the support of the community, and to be co-sponsored by multiple community organizations, including TMSL Hispanic Law Student Association.

If you have any questions, please email LULACLawStudents@yahoo.com.

Sincerely,

LULAC Law Students #4900
Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Hernandez v. Texas Documentary

Dear Law Students,

We invite you to attend a special event on Monday, February 16, 2009 regarding the landmark Supreme Court case, Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), that LULAC played a role in. http://www.lulac.org/about/history.html Our advisor, Professor Lupe Salinas, will be speaking on the panel.

We will be planning a carpool to leave the law school at a time to be announced.

However, seats are very limited so please RSVP here: http://www.houstonpbs.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=3181. Only 36 seats were left a little while ago. You can RSVP for up to 2 people.

If you would like to join us, please email us at neavev@yahoo.com after you've RSVP'd so that we can know how many people to expect, whether you are willing to drive, and how many people you can fit in your vehicle.We hope you can join us!

Sincerely,
LULAC Law Students #4900
Thurgood Marshall School of Law

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Talento Bilingüe de Houston
333 S. Jensen Dr .
Houston , TX 77003-1115

http://www.tbhcente%20r.com/February 16, 2009

VIP Reception 6-6:45pm Screening 7-8pm Panel 8-8:30pm

Join HoustonPBS and filmmaker Carlos Sandovalfor a special preview screening and panel discussion A Class Apart. Click here to watch a preview.

The first major film to bring to life the heroic post-World War II struggles of Mexican Americans against the Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them, A Class Apart is built around the landmark 1951 civil rights Hernandez vs. Texas, in which an underdog band of Mexican Americans from Texas bring a case all the way to the Supreme Court - and win.

Panelists:
Ms. Maida Asofsky, ACLU
Alberto Cardenas, Vinson & Elkins
Francisco Rodriguez, LULAC
Carlos Sandoval, Filmmaker

A Class Apart premieres Monday, February 23 on “American Experience” at 8pm on HoustonPBS Channel 8. A Class Apart is presented in partnership with Active Voice and Camino Bluff

Banner photo credit: Lee (Russell) Photograph Collection, Center for American History UT-Austin; John J Herrera Collection, Houston Public Library; San Antonio Light Collection, UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures,Courtesy of the Hearst Corporation.

This preview is co-presented by HoustonPBS and our partners at The Southwest Alternate Media Project In cooperation with NALIP-Houston