Cicely Hodges, 3L
Rent subsidies, like Section 8 payments, allow individuals and families to pay an affordable rent based upon their income and at a portion of the market price. For those who live...
Michael Mandel (3L) meets with his client Shalonda Rivers after a successful hearing in county court
Evictions may seem like simple legal proceedings, but unrepresented tenants are often unable to...
Liberty City needs Teiya Emenike.
main-small-emenike.jpg3L Teiya Emenike
As Liberty Square, the oldest housing project in Miami, inches closer toward demolition...
One law school course can alter your career trajectory. Just ask Guerby Noel, JD ’14.
Guerby Noel, JD '14
When Noel entered Miami Law, he didn’t know he would dedicate his career to fighting to...
Law students often want the opportunity to represent clients in court, but that can only happen if they have completed the lengthy background check to become a Certified Legal Intern.
Stephanie Koether handing a...
Brenda West and Jason Hepperly
Evictions are complicated and confusing for tenants without lawyers. Such was the case of Brenda West and Jason Hepperly, a 3L Certified Legal Intern in Miami Law’s Tenants...
Kevin Hirsh
Although the Tenants' Rights Clinic only started its semester in mid-January, clinic student and certified legal intern, Kevin Hirsh, has already successfully argued his first case in court.
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Affordable housing in Miami is in short supply. A recent study by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing and Enterprise Community Partners found that 30% of renters in Florida spend more than half their income on rent. Because of this...
Miami Law's Tenants' Rights Clinic kept a client in the apartment she called home for 31 years by obtaining a favorable verdict after a two-day jury trial in April.
The client lives in public housing operated by Miami Dade County and...
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