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UH Law Center Young Alumni Committee members work on flood cut and drywall removal in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.   UH Law Center Young Alumni Committee members volunteered to help many Hurricane Harvey victims.


        Subjects covered a wide range of storm-related issues facing   heavy financial, physical and emotional impact on our friends and family
        homeowners, tenants and businesses, including insurance coverage,   in the Houston community and in our school. We cannot express enough
        FEMA qualifications, landlord/tenant disputes, contracts, price gouging   gratitude for the financial and moral support we have received in the wake
        and scams.                                                 of this disaster.”
        Normally, the volunteer teachers field questions in various areas of the   Relief money will be distributed to students based on need by the Law
        law, including business law, criminal law, credit and debt collection, wills   Center’s Scholarship Committee.
        and estates, health law, and landlord tenant law.          “The overwhelming response speaks to the generosity and camaraderie
        Hosted by UHLC’s Center for Consumer Law, which Alderman continues   of fellow law students,” said Associate Dean for Student Affairs Sondra
        to serve as director, the free, biannual program is sponsored by the   R. Tennessee. “The money will help those struggling to recover
        Houston Lawyer Referral Service. The “People’s Law School” is the oldest   financially from the loss of cars, laptops, personal property, and, in
        and most successful program of its kind in the nation, having taught more   some cases, damage to their homes. The heartfelt words of support were
        than 55,000 people over the years.                         equally meaningful.”

        Law students from across the country step up to support UHLC
        victims of Hurricane Harvey
        Law students, far from the destruction and misery of Hurricane Harvey,
        came to the aid of their fellow students at the University of Houston Law
        Center in November with financial and moral support to help in their
        recovery.
        Students at the University of Alabama School of Law, Albany Law
        School, and Syracuse University College of Law combined to match the
        nearly $1,500 raised by Law Center students to help classmates affected
        by the widespread flooding caused by the late August storm. Student
        representatives from more than 20 other law schools offered words of
        encouragement in solidarity with Law Center students.

        “The outpouring of support from our colleagues at law schools around the
        country has been both uplifting and awe-inspiring,” said Reed Fryar 2L,
        president of the UHLC Student Bar Association. “Hurricane Harvey left a


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