PipS Fellow Jared Riser ’18 Featured in U.S. News Story about Legal Assistance to Low-income Tenants
Jared Riser ’18 is featured in a Jan. 22 in U.S. News highlighting the stubbornly high number of eviction cases across the country and the increasing number of cities offering free attorneys to low-income tenants facing eviction as a promising solution. Riser, a Public Interest/Public Service (PipS) Fellow at the Law School who is working with The New York Legal Assistance Group as part of the fellowship program, is representing Shawn Johnson, a low-income tenant whose story is the focus of the article.
PipS is a two-year fellowship program in cooperation with government agencies and nonprofit organizations that encompasses students’ last year of law school and first post-graduate year. The mission of PipS is to improve the practical skills of new lawyers while expanding the ability of nonprofit organizations and government agencies to provide legal services. Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ is the first law school on the East Coast to offer this unique program, which launched in Fall 2014.
Read the U.S. News article .
Read more about PipS Fellows here.