TENANTS RIGHTS CLINIC

Defending Evictions During COVID-19: My Semester in the Tenants’ Rights Clinic

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Michael Weitzner, Certified Legal Intern

More than midway into the semester, work becomes routine. Most days as a certified legal intern in the Tenants’ Rights Clinic were similar: arrive at Legal...

Amid COVID-19, Tenants’ Rights Clinic Student Flexes Creative Thinking to Find Solutions for Clients

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Kimi Robertson, 2L

Rising third-year law student Kimi Robertson works in the Tenants’ Rights Clinic, serves as President of...

Case-by-Case, Tenants’ Clinic Makes a Difference

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

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...

Tenants’ Rights Clinic Defends Retaliatory Eviction of Tenant Leader

Friday, May 10, 2019

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...

HOPE Fellow Awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowship at Legal Services of Greater Miami

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Liberty City needs Teiya Emenike.

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3L Teiya Emenike

As Liberty Square, the oldest housing project in Miami, inches closer toward demolition...

Tenants’ Rights Clinic Changes Career Trajectory of Recent Alumnus Guerby Noel

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

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...

Students Represent Clients and Receive Hands-On Experience with the Tenants' Rights Clinic

Friday, November 18, 2016

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...

Tenants’ Rights Clinic Helps Client Avoid Eviction

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

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...

Tenants' Rights Clinic Stops Eviction of Single Mother and Children

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

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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Tenants’ Rights Clinic Students Help Families Remain in Subsidized Housing

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

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...