Fighting for Equal Treatment of Same-Sex Military Spouses
By Henry Beshar ’22 “But you’re not a veteran,” my puzzled mentor remarked after learning that I enrolled in Harvard Law School’s Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic (VLDBC). “I’m not,” I replied, “but it’s ...
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June 23: “Lunch and Learn – Discharge Upgrade” with LSC’s Veterans Clinic and the Bob Woodruff Foundation
Lunch and Learn: Discharge Upgrade Thursday, June 23 at 12 pm ET | Register About the Event The Bob Woodruff Foundation and the Legal Services Center’s Veterans Legal Clinic are excited to convene national experts ...
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Keith Fogg, Clinical Professor of Law and Avid Advocate for Low-Income Taxpayers, Retires
By Olivia Klein, Harvard Law Today As a teacher at Harvard Law School, Keith Fogg says that he sees himself like the Wizard of Oz: “I’m standing behind the curtain, telling the students that they have ...
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LSC Tax Clinic Intern Eshika Kaul Awarded Truman Scholarship
Eshika Kaul ’23, who was an intern in LSC’s Federal Tax Clinic, was recently named as a recipient of the prestigious Truman Scholarship. Read more below about Eshika and her work assisting low-income taxpayers, and ...
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LSC Team Helps 200 Native Alaskans Get Much-Needed Tax Assistance
The tax issues faced by Native Alaskan tribal members are unusually complex. Those complexities stem not only from the area’s chief economic driver – fishing – but also from how tribes are governed, and the ...
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For LSC Alum, Service Comes First
Published by the Harvard Gazette on May 16, 2022. Tyler Patrick started planning a life of service when he was a boy. The past four years have given shape to that plan. A native of ...
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Public Interest Law: A Career with Impact
With an undergraduate degree in English, Sarah Atkinson ’22 was drawn to study law because it combined two things she loved: reading and writing. Her time at Harvard Law School has given her the opportunity ...
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Supreme Court Rules Unanimously In Favor of Tax Clinic Position on Whether Filing Deadlines Are Jurisdictional or Mere “Claims Processing Rules” that Can Be Tolled
Although the Supreme Court has been sharply divided on a host of issues this term, it ruled unanimously this spring in Boechler P.C. v. Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. That ruling affirmed a position ...
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On Winning and Losing: What Public Interest Litigation Is Fighting For
By Stephanie Kelemen ’22, Domestic Violence and Family Law Clinic I lost my first appeal, and I am not sad. Over the course of a year, I put my blood, sweat, and tears into the ...
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When Perpetrators of Domestic Violence Use Civil Court System to Re-Victimize Survivors
By Madeline Finnegan ’23, Domestic Violence and Family Law Clinic While domestic violence is sometimes dealt with in the criminal justice system, more frequently it is handled as a civil matter disputed in Probate and ...
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LSC Tax Clinic Achieves Meaningful Changes in Two Tax Court Procedures Affecting Low-Income and Pro Se Litigants
As the old saying goes: The pen is mightier than the sword. Yet it is not very common for a law review article to prompt real-world reform. Recently, however, attorneys and students in LSC’s Tax ...
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A Haven for Taxpayers: Harvard Law’s Federal Tax Clinic Helps Low-income Taxpayers Shed Their Debts — and Stress
By Rachel Reed | Published by Harvard Law Today on April 18, 2022 Everyone knows the old saying about death and taxes, and it’s hardly a secret that filing income taxes — and communicating with ...
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