 
| Kimberly Carpenter Emery Assistant Dean for Pro Bono and Public Interest J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1991 B.A., Carleton College, 1986 Kimberly Emery has been the Law School's assistant dean for pro bono since 2004. Formerly, she was the assistant dean for public service and founder and director of the Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center. Emery coordinates and administers pro bono programming for law students, counsels students and graduates regarding pro bono and public interest opportunities, develops and fund raises for new projects, and oversees the Law School's Pro Bono Challenge and hosts the annual Pro Bono Award Ceremony. She also serves as the co-director of the Child Health Advocacy Program (CHAP), which recently received a $1 million endowment from a private family foundation in Richmond. The program is a collaborative effort among the Law School, the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, and the Legal Aid Justice Center. Other pro bono projects coordinated by Emery include: the Hunton & Williams Pro Bono Partnership that allows law students to volunteer for a year with attorneys from the firm’s Richmond office to represent indigent clients in the areas of domestic violence/family law and immigration/asylum law; the Immigrant Detainee Jail Visit Project, which helps jailed immigrants through coordination with the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (CAIR); and the Legal Outreach Project, in which students conduct client intake at soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and low-income housing projects for the Legal Aid Justice Center. Under Emery's direction, the Public Service Center in a typical year coordinates pro bono projects with more than 100 employers nationwide, from work with full-time public interest lawyers to pro bono efforts undertaken by private practitioners. In 2006-2007, more than 300 students logged more than 12,000 pro bono hours on such projects. Emery received her B.A. magna cum laude in 1986 from Carleton College. In 1991 she received her law degree from the Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. Prior to returning to Virginia in 1992 to develop its public service programming, Emery worked as a staff attorney at the Charlottesville law firm of Michie, Hamlett, Lowry, Rasmussen & Tweel. She is a member of the Virginia Bar and the Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association and serves as a member of the pro bono committee. Emery has been a board member for the Legal Aid Justice Center for over 15 years and was recognized in 2000 as the organization's Volunteer of the Year. | |
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