Erica Yang, '17, and Eric Zhi, '18, Create Virtual Clinic to Support Chinatown Businesses
Attorneys create free, virtual clinic to give immigrant Asian business owners legal help
Years after Erica Yang immigrated to the United States, she can still remember how she felt as a teen in a new country.
“The feeling of vulnerability and anxiety and what it feels like to be an outsider,” said Yang, who came to the U.S. from China. “I still remember that feeling when I was in high school.”
Those memories are why Yang, a commercial finance attorney at the Katten Muchin Rosenman law firm, recently co-founded a free, virtual legal clinic aimed at those in the Asian community in Chicago whose primary language isn’t English.
Lawyers Helping Our Community, under the umbrella of the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, launched in June as a completely virtual clinic to help the Chinatown business community with civil issues such as evictions and insurance claims.
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