Students make pro bono visits to New Orleans

CHAMPAIGN – The week Austin Kaplan started law school at the University of Illinois, a hurricane was ravaging the Gulf Coast.

The devastation done by Katrina in August 2005, it turns out, would provide learning opportunities for him and fellow law school students that they could not have received in a lecture hall in Champaign.

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