Gifts Support Students, Provide Aid for Domestic Violence Victims

When King Hall alumni and friends support the UC Davis School of Law Family Protection and Legal Assistance Clinic, the gifts not only provide invaluable, real-world experience for King Hall students, but also impact real lives in the community.

Founded in 1999, the Woodland-based clinic represents clients in an average of 79 cases per year, helping victims of domestic violence and their children to obtain restraining orders, custody orders, and the financial support necessary to allow these families to go on with their lives without the threat of further abuse.  The clinic performs vitally needed work as the only entity providing free legal representation to low-income victims of domestic violence in Yolo County, where 18.4 percent of the population lives below the federal poverty level. The clinic also partners with the Yolo County Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center to offer community education, restraining order clinics, and more.

Working with Professor Krystal Callaway Jamie and the Family Protection Clinic staff, King Hall students have changed lives, offering protection from abusive situations, reuniting children with parents, facilitating financial support for families in crisis, and more.  At the same time, the students learn valuable lessons as they hone practical skills on behalf of real clients.

"We are very proud of the important work of the Family Protection and Legal Assistance Clinic, which has made a profound difference in the lives of many victims of domestic violence and taught students much about the practice of law for those most in need," said Dean Kevin R. Johnson.

In 2008, the Family Law Clinic received a grant of $35,000 from the Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic branch of New York-based Verizon Communications Inc. It has also benefitted from the generosity of the many King Hall alumni and friends who have supported the Law School's clinical programs through directed gifts. Please consider a gift today and help support today's students, the Family Law Clinic, and victims of domestic violence in Yolo County.

UC Davis School of Law Family Protection and Legal Assistance Clinic