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Did you know that six out of every ten of our fellow Americans have a direct family connection to military service? When we help veterans, we are also supporting families and communities. We are nearly one third of the way toward our goal of $8,000. With your continued support, we can expand the Veterans Practicum to include more students and serve more veterans.
Words from a Veteran
Aziz Ali, J.D. ’26, who served in the U.S. Air Force for 12 years and is now in the New York Air National Guard, highlighted why he participates in the Veterans Law Practicum:
“I’m helping people who came before me, who paved the path for me. As a first-generation American, the first person in my family to go to the military and the first person to go to law school, all of this is because other people before me came and made sacrifices so I can walk in their path.”
Aziz Ali, J.D. ’26
Army veteran Ana Chan (left) relies on her Great Dane, named Rodgers, for companionship, routine and physical support. Jimmy Hardwick (right), supervising attorney of the Veterans Law Practicum, was part of a team of attorneys and students that fought to save Rodgers after a court deemed him a dangerous dog and sentenced him to be euthanized.
Ana Chan, a disabled Army veteran with a traumatic brain injury and partial blindness in one eye, relied on her Great Dane, Rodgers, for companionship, routine and physical support. The Veterans Law Practicum recently secured clemency for Rodgers after a judge had deemed him a dangerous dog and sentenced him to be euthanized.
“When you saved his life, you saved my life, too,” Chan told Jimmy Hardwick, supervising attorney of the practicum and adjunct professor in the Law School. Read the full story here: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/11/veterans-law-clinic-saves-dog-death-row
Help us spread the word! Your gift will support essential, operational costs like printing high-quality flyers, as well as purchasing event materials and supplies like legal information stock cards for our students.
You can cover the cost of transportation for students traveling to meet with current and prospective clients in five local counties and allow the flexible funds for students to attend panels, events, or conferences outside of Ithaca.
This year, our practicum saw a record number of student applicants. Your gift today will help us build an infrastructure that can support more passionate law students, and impact more local veterans.
Your gift will allow our students to take on more complex and varied cases outside of the scope of current grant funding, expanding our impact to address cases like child custody, wills, and discharge appeals and upgrades.
Your gift will help our practicum expand our staff to include more staff attorneys, graduate fellows, and the administrative support to handle a larger case load.
At this time, the Veterans Practicum is funded by a generous grant. With your help, we can expand the practicum into a stable, annual clinic. Your gift will ensure maximum impact in the local veterans community.