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CLEVELAND -- The Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic at Case Western Reserve University's School of Law has received a $750,000 grant which will enable it to significantly expand the clinic's teaching and service capabilities. Sources of the grant are gifts from the Milton A. and Charlotte R. Kramer Charitable Foundation, the Samuel Rosenthal Foundation, and the Paul P. Dosberg Foundation.
"We are very grateful to the trustees of the foundations for this generous gift," said Gerald Korngold, dean and the Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Professor of Law at the school. "It will provide terrific opportunities for more of our students to experience clinical education and to increase our level of community involvement, while strengthening our school's leadership in this important field."
Current areas of practice available through the clinic are criminal, civil litigation, family law, and health law. Students represent indigent clients under the supervision of clinic faculty. The clinic now serves about 250 clients each year.
Korngold said the funds will be used to create an endowment to support hiring an additional faculty member, develop new initiatives in clinical education, and expand the clinic's offerings to include legal services associated with community development. The clinic will be renamed the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center.
Clinic students in the community development area will represent individuals and nonprofit groups in matters such as buying and/or rehabilitating a home, and organizing a business or non-profit group, Korngold explained.
Ken Margolis, professor of law and a co-director of the clinic, explained that the grant will also enable the law school to provide "labs" -- clinical experiences for students as part of another course. For example, students studying immigration law might assist an individual in an asylum hearing. "It will have a connection with a real person having a real problem," Margolis said.
"We are very grateful to Mrs. Kramer for her continuing interest in legal education," he added. "Without people like this who are willing to contribute financially, it becomes difficult for students to undertake this kind of study." Judith Lipton, professor of law, is the clinic's other co-director.
A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, Milton A. Kramer received undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan. Following graduation he came to Cleveland to practice tax law with the firm of Horwitz, Kiefer and Harmel until he entered the Coast Guard in 1942, where he served until the end of World War II. In 1945 he returned to Cleveland and joined the Cleveland Overall Company, which later became Work Wear Corporation. He was named senior vice president and a director in 1961, positions he held until his death in 1980.
The CWRU law school has operated an in-house law clinic since 1976. In 1993 it was named for Milton A. Kramer following a $750,000 gift from Charlotte Kramer and the Milton A. and Charlotte R. Kramer Charitable Foundation, the Samuel Rosenthal Foundation, and the Paul P. Dosberg Foundation.