RALEIGH – The Campbell Community Law Clinic has added a fourth community partner to its stable of non-profit agencies. Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced that effective immediately the clinic will begin providing legal services to clients of Alliance Medical Ministry, a non-profit that provides affordable healthcare to working uninsured adults. Alliance joins StepUp Ministry, the Raleigh Rescue Mission and Urban Ministry as partner agencies with the Community Law Clinic. In the last 12 months, the clinic has assisted dozens of clients referred by these non-profit partners and more than 100 individuals in all.
“We are thrilled to partner with Alliance, a wonderful non-profit serving working families,” said clinic director Ashley Campbell. “We especially welcome the opportunity to work with Megg Rader, Alliance’s executive director, and a fellow graduate of Campbell Law School.”
The Campbell Community Law Clinic partners with non-profit agencies in the community to provide solutions to legal problems encountered by clients of those agencies. The clinic provides representation, advocacy, education and reconciliation for its clients while delivering valuable and practical knowledge to law school students.
Legal services are provided by law students, under the supervision of Campbell, the clinic director. Students hold client interviews, prepare motions, oversee case management and make court appearances.
Through this experience, students gain important practical legal skills and an appreciation for the challenges faces by citizens living in poverty. This program prepares students to be resourceful and practice-ready upon their entrance into the profession.
“We are so glad to be able to connect our patients in need of legal advice and services to the Campbell Community Law Clinic,” said Rader.
Alliance Medical Ministry provides access to comprehensive primary medical care to working, uninsured adults in Wake County. More than 90,000 adult residents of Wake County lack access to affordable acute and primary medical care. According to the NC Census, 82 percent of the uninsured in North Carolina reside in a working household. Without insurance these hard-working citizens are less likely to receive preventive care, and are more likely to be hospitalized for conditions that could have been prevented which can quickly lead to medical debt. For more information visit their website at http://www.alliancemedicalministry.org/.