A group of Thomas Jefferson law students will be helping Veteran’s Village clients deal with several types of legal issues, including family law, consumer law and government benefits issues.

Thomas Jefferson law professor Steve Berenson, who will direct the VLAC, said: “The clinic will provide students with opportunities to obtain real-world, legal practice experience, while at the same time providing services to VVSD clients that may be essential to the veterans’ return to productive participation in society. Because such legal services have often been unavailable, to VVSD clients in the past, we are creating brand new resource for both VVSD and TJSL.”

Al Pavich, the President and CEO of Veteran’s Village said: “Thomas Jefferson is providing a new and vital service to our clients to help them face, not erase, legal responsibilities of the past in order to live freer and healthier lives.”

“This clinic will provide direct legal assistance to homeless veterans in treatment with special needs, while giving a valuable live client clinical experience for our students,” said Thomas Jefferson’s Dean Rudy Hasl. “Through the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Thomas Jefferson School of Law is partnering with a very successful organization that has been providing valuable services to San Diego veterans for many years.”

The students will be seeing the clients on site at the Veteran’s Village on Pacific Highway, working directly under the supervision of Professor Berenson.

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