Free Legal Services Available for Students
Sam Houston State University students, who think they may need
a lawyer, or who have legal questions, need look no further than
the Lee Drain Annex.
Legal Services is located there, in room 101. James Gibson
is the legal services adviser.
Legal Services recently circulated a report that included 117
agencies that can help students who need information in areas
as alcohol, auto insurance, child support, debt, fraud, identity
theft, and sexual assault.
Gibson said that other legal concerns that students have are
landlord/tenant, consumer protection, insurance, criminal, family
law, traffic tickets, automobile wrecks, and employee rights.
"The legal services department is here to inform students
about their legal rights with total confidentially, and fast
responses," said Gibson. "Our goal is to provide
reliable information that is up-to-date with the laws of the
state."
The legal services mission is to help students achieve academic
success by allowing them to not worry about their legal problems
and to help them save money. Also they are the students'
advocate and they provide additional information to students
to further their legal knowledge if they so choose.
In order to receive legal services a student must be currently
enrolled and must present a Sam ID before any consultation.
Gibson has held his position since 1991. He received his bachelor
of business administration degree at the University of Texas
in Austin; his Master of Science in criminal justice at Sam Houston
State University, and his juris doctorate from the Southern Methodist
University School of Law.
He is a board member and current secretary of the Texas Mediators
Credentialing Association and the Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable;
former president of the Greater Houston Chapter of Society of Professionals
in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR), now known as the Association for
Conflict Resolution; plus a former board member of the Texas Association
of Mediators and the College of Texas Mediators.
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SHSU Media Contact: Clever Bonilla
April 4, 2006
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