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Community Law Clinic

For those underserved populations living near or below the poverty line, the Community Law Clinic represents the way forward in matters of family law, disability law, and other areas where they need legal assistance. Students in the clinic have the opportunity to represent clients through every level of the state common pleas court system or the requisite federal court system.

Our Work and Impact

Clinic students not only gain valuable hands-on training, they are difference-makers for those who have nowhere else to turn. They are advocates in matters of family law and/or disability law, such as:

  • Divorce

  • Support

  • Custody

  • Adoption

  • Protection from abuse

  • Ability discrimination

  • Special education

  • Americans with Disabilities Act claims

  • Social Security Disability Claims

Faculty Supervision

Professor Megan Riesmeyer

Professor Megan Riesmeyer is the director of Penn State Dickinson Law's Community Law Clinic, where she focuses litigation on family, disability, and poverty law. She chairs Dickinson Law’s Diversity and Educational Equity Committee, is a member of the Pennsylvania Joint State Commission on Domestic Relations Matters, and sits on the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Ethics Committee.

Professor Riesmeyer serves as a board member for the Community Justice Project (a statewide legal service agency) and as a board member for UPMC Carlisle Hospital.

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