State Bar President Tours Student-Run Legal Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 13, 2005
CONTACT: Joe Wills
530-898-4143
State Bar President Tours Student-Run Legal Center
State Bar of California President and former State Attorney General John Van de Camp is visiting California State University, Chico’s Community Legal Information Center (CLIC) today, June 13, to tour the facilities and talk with students about the state bar’s recent grant to the center.
Van de Kamp is scheduled to be at CLIC’s offices at 25 Main St. in Chico at 4 p.m. He will be accompanied by attorney Rick Crabtree, president of the Butte County Bar Association. About 10 CSU, Chico student interns and two faculty members will be in attendance to lead the tour and answer questions.
CLIC received a $5,000 grant from the State Bar in February 2005 to translate materials for the public into Spanish and Hmong and create a self-serve computer station for the public to do legal research.
Funded primarily by CSU, Chico and the Associated Students, CLIC provides free legal information-not legal advice-to the public. While most clients are located in the North State, CLIC has assisted people throughout California and occasionally in other states. For the 2003-2004 fiscal year, CLIC served 3,145 clients, involving 3,812 hours of service. CLIC is divided into 12 various specialized programs, operated by CSU, Chico student paralegal interns and supervised by four attorneys.
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