Office of External Communications

Houston, TX 77204-5017 Fax: 713.743.8199

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 27, 2006

Contact: Angie Joe
713.743.8153 (office)
713.617.7138 (pager)
ajoe@uh.edu

If you’re looking for a source for free information about your legal rights, the best place to get it is the “People’s Law School” offered April 8 by the Center for Consumer Law at the University of Houston Law Center.

The People’s Law School is the nation’s oldest and most successful program for “average citizens” with questions about the law. The program is co-sponsored by the Houston Bar Association and will feature free courses in fourteen different areas of law: business law, bankruptcy, employment, insurance, consumer law, credit and debt collection, wills and estates, family law, health insurance law, landlord tenant law, small claims court, how to deal with an attorney, how to research the law on the Internet, and a new course on juvenile law.

Leading the classes will be more than 40 volunteer lawyers, judges, and law professors. Each “student” may choose three classes to attend, and written materials will be available for each class. There will even be free donuts – courtesy of Kroger’s.

While the “People’s Law School” is free, pre-registration is required and limited to the first 1,000 people. To register by mail, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Professor Richard M. Alderman, University of Houston Law Center, 100 Law Center, Houston, Texas 77204-6060. To register on the web, go to www.peopleslawyer.net.

“Our classes won’t turn you into a lawyer, but they can help you settle disputes and avoid problems,” Alderman said. “Best of all, it’s all free – even the donuts.”

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