Over the past 10 days, Temple Law students in the Community Lawyering Clinic at the Temple Legal Aid Office have represented four clients seeking disability benefits in federal hearings before administrative law judges. In two of the cases, students in previous semesters had represented the clients in Federal District Court on written summary judgment motions and had successfully gotten these clients another chance at obtaining benefits after they had been wrongfully denied benefits by administrative law judges. In both of those cases this time around, current students won benefits for and with the clients. The clients will receive monthly checks as well as checks to compensate them for the time that the Social Security Administration had wrongly denied them and should have been paying them. These clients can now live successfully and independently in the community .
Students continue doing this important work for clients while continuing their work to bring legal services to the community in the community. In the last few weeks, students have traveled to work work with clients at Temple Hospital’s Cancer Center, Liberty Resources Center for Independent Living, and Action AIDS North Philadelphia office. Pictured below are Kyle DeMarco at the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review and Kate Emert at Action AIDS. Thanks and good work by them and their co-student interns Chi-Ser Tran, Andrew Newstein, and Liz Dolce.
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