Veteran Service Organizations File Lawsuit to Compel VA to Amend its Character of Discharge Regulations
October 25, 2023
News
By National Veterans Legal Services Program National Veterans Legal Services Program and Swords to Plowshares, represented by the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School and Latham & Watkins LLP, ...
Read More →
LSC’s Margaret Kuzma and Dana Montalto, two of the nation’s leading experts in military discharge upgrade law, will be sharing their knowledge at an online CLE on November 16th.
October 23, 2023
News
Veterans Law: Applying for discharge upgrades and appealing negative DOD board decisions Live Video-Broadcast: November 16, 2023 10 AM – 12:10 PM EST | 9 – 11:10 AM CST | 8 – 10:10 AM MST ...
Read More →
Melissa Morgan ’24 Endeavors to Make “Rights Real” for Clients in the Housing Justice for Survivors Project
September 27, 2023
Housing Justice for Survivors
By Harvard Law School Student Melissa Morgan ’24 In Massachusetts, where survivors of gender-based violence have access to some important housing protections, such protections are little understood and little used. In 2013, the state legislature ...
Read More →
Two Veterans—One an LSC Student and the Other a Client Battling Homelessness—Help Each Other in Surprising Ways
September 26, 2023
News
By Harvard Law School Student Nathan Lowry Many Legal Services Center (LSC) veteran clients served in America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In most cases, these veterans deployed years, and in some cases, decades ago. ...
Read More →
Tax Litigation Clinic Obtains Important Victory at the U.S. Court of Appeals—Decision Overturns Tax Court Precedent that Harmed Low-Income Taxpayers and Others
August 7, 2023
News
On July 19th, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit embraced an interpretation of the tax code that had long been advocated by LSC’s Tax Litigation Clinic—handing an important victory to the ...
Read More →
LSC’s Rebecca Greening Quoted in Globe on Staggering Number of DCF Decision Reversals in Fair Hearings
July 6, 2023
News
Rebecca Greening, clinical instructor in LSC’s Family Justice Clinic, commented in a recent Boston Globe article on the astounding number — 48 percent in 2022 —of Department of Children and Family (DCF) decisions that are ...
Read More →
Mussab Ali: Right-to-Counsel reform and the way forward | Opinion
June 15, 2023
News
In this Jersey Journal column, Mussab Ali ’23 talks about his work in LSC’s Housing Clinic representing clients facing eviction— and how important it is to have legal representation against “unscrupulous landlords.” Read Mussab’s reflections ...
Read More →
For Anthony Pericolo ‘23, Helping Secure Benefits for a Veteran without Permanent Housing was his Most Rewarding Law School Experience
May 25, 2023
News
In this Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs blog post, Anthony Pericolo ‘23 discusses his representation of an older veteran whose veterans benefits had been unlawfully terminated. Anthony explains in the post that his ...
Read More →
Arabi Hassan ’23 Gets Introduction to Emerging Field of Family Defense While at LSC
May 25, 2023
Family Law and Domestic Violence Clinic
What does it look like to expand access to justice when people in crisis can’t afford a lawyer? In this Harvard Law School Clinic in a Minute video, Arabi Hassan ’23 talks about how her ...
Read More →
Harvard Students Select Alex Chen for AAPI/APIDA Affinity Celebration Faculty Award
May 23, 2023
News
After soliciting nominations from students representing all schools at Harvard, the Planning Committee for the 2023 Harvard AAPI/APIDA (Asian American Pacific Islander/Asian Pacific Islander Desi American) Affinity Celebration selected Alex Chen, founding director of LSC’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy ...
Read More →
LSC Students Honored with Clinical and Pro Bono Awards at Harvard Commencement
May 18, 2023
News
Three LSC students received clinical and pro bono at Harvard Law School’s commencement: Stephanie Perez ’23, a clinic student in LSC’s Veterans Legal Clinic in 2022, was honored with the Ralph D. Gants Access to Justice ...
Read More →
Sam Holloway ’24 Discovers that Criminal Record Sealing is Not Always the End of the Story
May 17, 2023
News
In this blog post, Sam Holloway ‘24, student in LSC’s Safety Net Program, discusses how he helped a client fully clear her public record. This client had been absolved of criminal wrongdoing and her record ...
Read More →