Statistics
Caseload, Student Enrollment, and Case Statistics
During the past 31 years, more than 2,000 low-income and unemployed clients have had their essential legal needs served through the South Royalton Legal Clinic by 834 motivated law students. Annually, the clinic provides an estimated $1.5 million in free legal services to Vermonters. As the second-largest poverty law center in the state, the clinic has become an essential part of resource delivery in Vermont. The SRLC works collaboratively with many other service providers, including Vermont Legal Aid, Legal Services Law Line of Vermont, Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Assault, Vermont Immigration and Asylum Advocates, and Have Justice Will Travel.
Over the course of 2008–09, SRLC had 35 clinical students enrolled plus 34 work-study students and volunteers over two semesters and one summer. These 69 students amounted to 46 percent of the number of students in the 2009 VLS JD class, a very significant number to be reached by an elective course. For the same period, the clinic had 220 matters scheduled for hearings and related client proceedings in 21 different venues.
SRLC Caseload Statistics as of May 1, 2009
| Case Type | Number of Cases | Percent of Total Caseload | Involves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer | 5 | 4% | Including bankruptcy cases |
| Administrative | 7 | 5% | Including public benefits |
| Housing | 0 | 0 | |
| Domestic Relations | 88 | 62% | Divorce, parentage, separation, child support, domestic violence grants, and Children First! |
| Immigration | 27 | 19% | VIA Project |
| Miscellaneous | 14 | 10% | Including juvenile cases |
| Total | 141 |
Our goal is to stop the generational cycle of abuse. It’s as simple as that. I was mentored by the clinic’s faculty, who were instrumental in showing me how Have Justice Will Travel could serve clients.”—Wynona Ward ’98, SRLC Clinician 1997, Founder of Have Justice Will Travel, and CNN Hero of 2010
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