Summer Law Fellow

Joins Equal Justice Center's Immigrant Employment Law Practice

Funded by the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Texas

 Edmundo de la Fuente, a third-year student at the University of Texas School Law, has joined the Equal Justice Center for the summer of 2006 to practice employment law on behalf of immigrant workers.  Edmundo will work with immigrant clients to protect their employment rights, primarily on cases to recover unpaid wages pursuant to contract law, minimum wage and overtime laws and other state and federal wage-hour statutes. 

 The fellowship is funded through a grant recently awarded to the Equal Justice Center by the State Bar of Texas Labor and Employment Law Section. 

 Edmundo will be working with attorneys and staff of the EJC and its Central Texas Immigrant Worker Rights Center, as well as with law students enrolled in the summer semester of  the UT Law School Transnational Worker Rights Clinic, which is operated by the EJC in partnership with UT Law School and is taught by EJC executive director, Bill Beardall.