Area of Law: Immigration and Refugee Law -- Family Law -- Housing (landlord and tenant) Law -- Employment Law
The Korean Legal Clinic ("KLC") was founded by Korean-Canadian lawyers in Toronto. The KLC aims to improve access to justice for Korean-Canadians by providing culturally and linguistically appropriate legal services, education, and resources with our partner organizations. To learn more about KLC, check out their website here: https://www.kcla.ca/
The Korean Legal Clinic seeks to address the specific legal needs of members of Toronto's growing Korean community. The Clinic strives to improve access to justice by tackling the cultural, linguistic, and economic barriers. The Clinic provides referral services, organizes public legal education seminars, and undertakes special projects to address specific issues.
Students volunteering with the Clinic will support the clinic's day-to-day operations and participate by conducting legal research and preparing PLE materials. The student's work will not be more than 10% administrative. For the PLE project, students will help identify topics that are of interest to the low-income Korean community, communicate wit guest lawyer speakers, conduct research on the topics that the guest speakers would like to cover, and synthesize research findings into a PowerPoint presentation.
Students will research specific legal topics and prepare PLE presentation materials for lawyers who will deliver the information at seminars at the Clinic. The PLE presentations may be in-person or virtual. In the past, the clinic ran both in-person and virtual sessions. The student will not be speakers at the presentation; they will support the lawyer presenters, by conducting research, preparing presentation materials, and collaborating with the lawyer presenters before each session. Topics may include small claims, income tax law, bankruptcy, labour and employment, family law, immigration law, and housing law. Students may also provide translation support.