--- title: Off the Record - Seton Hall Law's Official Blog | Classes and Courses (2) description: Classes and Courses | Seton Hall Law professors, students, administrators and alumni share advice and experiences about law school and life beyond the bar exam. (2) --- Off The Record ![Seton Hall Law Logo](https://law.shu.edu/_resources/images/logos/logo.png) # [Equal Justice Clinic Provides More than Transactional Legal Skills](https://blog.law.shu.edu/off-the-record/equal-justice-clinic-provides-more-than-transactional-legal-skills) Posted by [Renée Bissonnette](https://blog.law.shu.edu/off-the-record/author/renée-bissonnette) on 4/29/16, 11:04 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.law.shu.edu/hubfs/csj_exterior-803202-edited.jpg)](https://blog.law.shu.edu/off-the-record/equal-justice-clinic-provides-more-than-transactional-legal-skills) In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a public letter while he was imprisoned in Birmingham jail. In it, he said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Of course I’d heard this quote many times throughout my life, but I suppose in all honesty it affected me in the way most grandiose platitudes did: not much. We all innately feel that injustice cannot be tolerated, however, until injustice finds its way into our day-to-day lives, we are hard-pressed to find the motivation to take action, or the ability to comprehend what it truly means to face injustice. 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