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Awards
Bernard Perlmutter received the first annual Champion for Children Award from the Miami Dade County Children's Trust in 2005.
Bernard Perlmutter received the 2005 C. Clyde Atkins Civil Liberties Award from the Greater Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
2003 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Law Case or Project for our Foster Children's Mental Health Rights Project.
2003 Outstanding Child Advocacy Award from the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC)
Florida Bar Foundation recognized the Clinic with the First Runner-Up Award for the 2003 Steven M. Goldstein Award for Excellence, shared with the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, for our federal court and legislative advocacy on behalf of older foster children.
Clinic Director Bernard Perlmutter was a co-recipient of the 2002 Hon. Hugh S. Glickstein Child Advocacy Award from the Florida Bar Public Interest Law Section Legal Needs of Children Committee for his three years of service on the Florida Bar Commission on the Legal Needs of Children.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Children and Youth Law Clinic
University of Miami School of Law
1311 Miller Drive, Suite F305
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: 305-284-3123
Fax: 305-284-4384
Bernard P. Perlmutter, Esq.
Director and Associate Clinical Professor
bperlmut@law.miami.edu
Kele Stewart, Esq.
Associate Director and Associate Clinical Professor
kstewart@law.miami.edu
Robert Latham, Esq.
Lecturer/Practitioner-in-Residence
rlatham@law.miami.edu
Angela Galiano-Acosta
Paralegal
aacosta@law.miami.edu
Mary Cruz
Legal Assistant
mcruz1@law.miami.edu
VIDEOS
An introduction to the Children and Youth Law clinic.
Why participate in this clinic: Graduate Evian White, J.D. '10 discusses how the clinic taught her to be a holistic lawyer and treat the child-client-issue as a whole. She also appreciates the essential tools she gained to become a better counselor, mediator, problem solver and listener, and how her experiences will impact her life and legal career.
OUR CLINIC IN ACTION
Children & Youth Law Clinic Sways Florida Supreme Court to Abolish Shackling of Juveniles. Read more.
