Celebrating Clinician Anniversaries: 30 Years at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School Original Post: Harvard Law Today This year, two Legal Services Center clinicians are celebrating milestone anniversaries at Harvard Law School. Over […]
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Housing Clinic Helps with Landmark Legislation to Seal Eviction Records By: Elaine McArdle For the first time in Massachusetts history, tenants will have the opportunity to seal an eviction record, following years of legislative advocacy
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Julia Devanthéry speaks in London on Trauma-Informed Clinical Education Julia Devanthéry, Director of the Housing Justice for Survivors Project at the Housing Law Clinic, was invited by the University College of London’s Faculty of
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Historic Massachusetts Law to Support Veterans Signed into Law – with Help from LSC Students By Elaine McArdle Three students in the Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic—David Paul ’24, Basundhara Mukherjee ‘24, and Nathan
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MGH Funds to Housing Justice for Survivors Project Means More Help for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence By Elaine McArdle Survivors of gender-based violence often face serious housing problems, too, including getting evicted from their homes
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LSC’s Housing Justice for Survivors program Awarded MGH Community Health Impact Funds Funding to Support Affordable Housing Initiatives FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 9, 2024 BOSTON, MA – The WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard
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Pushing Back When Government Tries to Separate Low-Income Children from Their Parents There are few things more devastating to a parent than having a child taken from them by the government. For Emma LoMastro ’25,
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By Harvard Law School Student Basundhara Mukherjee ’24 What leads a non-veteran to spend a year with the Veterans Legal Clinic? When I decided to enroll in the clinic during my 3L fall, I knew
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Originally Posted in Harvard Law Today: Story by Olivia Klein David Paul ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 David A. Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award. Paul is honored for his exceptional achievements in the
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For the past several years the Legal Services Center has noticed concerning practices by the companies contracting with medical facilities to provide medical records that appear to be in violation of Massachusetts’ patients’ rights laws.
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By National Veterans Legal Services Program NVLSP and Swords to Plowshares, represented by the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School and Latham & Watkins LLP, are filing on behalf
By Harvard Law School Student Tashrima Hossain ’26 When I was eight, Hurricane Katrina ravaged my community and pushed my family into homelessness. A decade later, I moved to San Francisco and was struck by
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What does it entail to champion LGBTQ+ rights with litigation, policy, and regulatory work within the community? Meet Lauren, a student in the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at Harvard Law School. Students in this clinic have
There is a knock on the door of the apartment where a mother—we will call her Dee*—lives with her two young sons. Dee is surprised to see a Department of Children and Families (DCF) investigator
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By Harvard Law School Student Alfredo Rosales ’24 Life has a funny way of coming full circle. I was born in Tepic, Nayarit, a little-known Mexican city along the Pacific coast. Tepic is one of
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By Harvard Law School Student Sam Holloway ’24 The Legal Services Center’s Safety Net Project helps clients with the “social safety net,” but it does a lot more than that, too. Among the Veteran’s Legal
Supporting evolving economic needs and wellbeing in the Consumer Protection Clinic Jan 31, 2024 By Lorea Mendiguren ‘24, Originally Published in Harvard Law School Today To be an American is to be a consumer. Daily, we trade
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What does it look like to pursue economic justice for those who have been wronged by abusive or unfair financial practices? Meet Annika, a student in the Consumer Protection Clinic at Harvard Law School. Students
LSC Students Reflect on the Value of an Advanced Clinical In November 2023, a little over two months into her advanced clinical semester with the Legal Services Center’s (LSC’s) Consumer Protection Clinic, Annika Reno ’24
By Harvard Law School Student Alex Zhang ‘24 The last time I said goodbye to Ted*, he was upright in his hospital bed, swaddled in his blue hospital gown with a wide smile. As I
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By Harvard Law School student Annika Reno ‘24 It’s an icy February morning in Dorchester. You wake up and help your twelve-year-old daughter get ready for school. You prepare her breakfast before rushing out to
By Caroline Hatley ‘24 At HLS, and at many other law schools across the country, law students spend the bulk of our time in the classroom learning legal doctrine by dissecting federal (mostly appellate) judicial
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On the front lines for veterans How Harvard Law’s Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic is helping a former Marine and small business owner get the benefits he deserves Nov 08, 2023 By Rachel Reed
Harvard Journal of Law and Gender Hosts Annual Fall Conference on ‘Gender and the Body’ By The Harvard Crimson – Kyle Baek and Anna Feng, Contributing Writers …Another panel, moderated by former HLS Dean Martha L. Minow, centered
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
The Women’s Bar Foundation presented Destini Agüero, deputy director of LSC, clinical instructor, and director of the Estate Planning Project in the Veterans Legal Clinic, with one of two Nery J. Arrano Pro Bono Awards
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During her first two weeks at the clinic, under the supervision of Audrey Patten, clinical instructor and acting director of the Tax Litigation Clinic, Madison Wulf Elbich ’24 filed an amicus brief urging the Sixth
At the Annual Low Income Taxpayer Clinics Conference in Phoenix in December 2022, Omeed Firouzi, staff attorney at Philadelphia Legal Assistance Taxpayer Support Clinic, spoke with Keith Fogg, clinical professor of law emeritus and former
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In this Boston Globe letter to the editor, Rebecca Greening, clinical instructor in the Family Justice Clinic at LSC, argues that the Department of Children and Families (DCF) should not be the path to care
