The School of Law at the University of California, Davis, has been awarded $252,397 to continue offering free legal services for lower-income women in Yolo County who are victims of domestic violence. The grant, which will support the Family Protection and Legal Assistance Clinic from January 2001 through June 2002, comes at a time when the Yolo County Superior Court has honored the law school for its efforts on behalf of the county's battered or abused women. The grant is the U.S. Department of Justice's second award for the clinic. Two years ago, the school received $223,522 to establish the new clinic and support its first 18 months. Opened in August 1999, the Woodland clinic handled 51 cases in its first year and is expected to serve 60 to 75 women this year. Under the supervision of staff attorney, Leslie Knight, second- and third-year law students represent women who are victims of family violence in issues of child custody and support, separation and divorce, property division, family mediation and other long-term problems such as housing and employment. Ten students are working in the clinic this year. "They do an outstanding job," Judge Donna Petre of Yolo County Superior Court says of the students who appear in her family court. "They're taking complex family law cases and ensuring that people who wouldn't otherwise have legal services are represented." The court recently recognized the law school, Knight, and law professor and faculty sponsor Martha West with an "Outstanding Effort" award for the clinic's work.