Panel featuring veterans, advocates, and medical expert examined issue that affects an estimated 200,000+ individuals who deployed to Southwest Asia during the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars This year’s Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Distinguished Speakers Series […]
In mid-January, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case seeking to clarify which deadlines deprive courts of jurisdiction to hear disputes and which are merely “claims processing rules” that can be tolled.
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The Legal Services Center’s Summer Internship Program, which runs from late May to the end of July, is now accepting applications from law students and undergraduates. Located at the crossroads of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury,
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On January 13, LSC’s Estate Planning Project hosted the first event in its webinar series, “Estate Planning for All: Making Plans for Your Health and Financial Future.” During the webinar, held in partnership with the Boston
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This interview appeared in the Brown Political Review. Julie McCormack is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, co-teaching “The Poverty Law Workshop – a toolkit for addressing inequity and homelessness” and “The Veterans
In October, The Boston Globe highlighted the case of an LSC client, Air Force Technical Sergeant Charles Cornacchio, whose belongings were sold by a Billerica moving and storage company while he was deployed to Qatar. Recently, the Globe
Read additional coverage on NBC News: Gay Navy veteran’s widower fights for benefits in historic appeal By Brett Milano, Harvard Law Today, November 8, 2021 When U.S. Navy veteran Rhett Chalk passed away in June of
By mid-semester, the 14 Harvard Law students enrolled in the Veterans Law & Disability Benefits Clinic at the Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain (LSC) are hard at work managing their busy dockets. From drafting
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In addition to its work with veterans, LSC’s Safety Net Project is building a unique collaboration with the Boston Public Library (BPL) to help individuals from all walks of life obtain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Want to change a veteran’s life through pro bono? There’s a manual for that October 20, 2021 The ABA Journal’s podcast, Modern Law Library, recently highlighted the Military Discharge Upgrade Legal Practice Manual, a new resource written by
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Before a deployment in 2019, Air Force Technical Sergeant Charles Cornacchio paid Billerica-based Father & Son Moving & Storage for moving and six months’ storage of his belongings. Months later, while serving in Qatar, Cornacchio learned
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up another suit trying to sort out which deadlines deprive courts of jurisdiction to hear disputes and which are merely “claims processing rules” that can be tolled.
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Kate Strickland and Rachel Schwarz, Harvard Law students in LSC’s Safety Net Project, submitted testimony last week on two bills under consideration by the Massachusetts Legislature that would provide support to college students who are
Drawing on careers spent representing clients accessing safety net benefits, LSC Clinical Instructors and Lecturers-on-Law Julie McCormack and Betsy Gwin have created a new seminar at Harvard Law School, the Poverty Law Workshop. Responding to
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On September 22, Peter Perkowski, Clinical Instructor in LSC’s Veterans Legal Clinic, testified before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The hearing, billed under the umbrella of “Creating a Welcoming
By Rachel Reed/HLS News Staff/ September 10, 2021, in Harvard Law Today The expiration two weeks ago of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic-related moratorium on evictions has caused new uncertainty for the
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CHICAGO, Aug. 31, 2021 — A new book from the American Bar Association, Military Discharge Upgrade Legal Practice Manual, is a desk reference for veteran’s rights advocates to use throughout the process of developing a
Anya Marino and Alejandra Caraballo talk about the barriers that can systematically block a community from excelling in, or even entering the legal field. “For the longest time … I didn’t see other people who
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Since 2016, the project has represented more than a one million borrowers and brought about the cancellation of over $2.5 billion in fraudulent debts Published by Harvard Law Today on August 12, 2021 By Brett
By Andrew Steinberg, LSC Safety Net Project Summer Intern; Brown University ’22 This piece was also published in the Dorchester Reporter on July 21. Should we punish people for crimes that no longer exist? This
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By Joseph Mottola ’23, St. John’s University School of Law; LSC Summer 2021 Law Student Intern A significant percentage of American college students are hungry and don’t know where tomorrow’s meals will come from –
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On Tuesday, July 15 at 1 pm, LSC’s Safety Net Project will host a Zoom info session about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. This financial empowerment session, hosted in partnership with the Kirstein
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The Harvard Gazette recently highlighted the work of Harvard students who have contributed their time and energy to giving back to the Greater Boston community. Below, recent Harvard Law graduate Daniel Polonsky, who was a
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The Bay State Banner reports that Beacon Communities, the company that manages Georgetowne Homes in Hyde Park, recently moved to evict more than 100 residents in a single month. Despite the company’s claim that the
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Julia Devanthéry, Attorney and Clinical Instructor in LSC’s Housing Clinic and founder of the Housing Justice for Survivor’s Project, was recently interviewed by Huffington Post as part of its reporting on the increased challenges and
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Dana Montalto, attorney and clinical instructor in LSC’s Veterans Legal Clinic, recently penned an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times outlining how the VA has unjustly barred thousands of veterans with other than honorable discharges
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From Harvard Law Today: Linda Heeyoung Park ’21 and Benjamin Antillon Fernandez ’21 are joint recipients of the 2021 David Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award. They were chosen this year from a wide range of
An update on the class action lawsuit Sweet v. Cardona, filed in 2019 by Project on Predatory Student Lending on behalf of defrauded student borrowers. Read Judge Alsop’s order here. From Courthouse News: Rejecting arguments
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From Harvard Law Today: The coronavirus pandemic upended almost everything in our lives last year, so it came as little surprise when, in an effort to support American taxpayers — and perhaps catch its breath
In 2016, the Project launched a first of its kind legal fight against the predatory for-profit college industry and the harm they cause to students and communities. During that time, the Project has grown
Inmates at the Bristol County Jail in Dartmouth, Massachusetts will get another day in court to determine whether they will continue paying exorbitant rates for phone calls to loved ones and attorneys. In 2020, a
LSC Continues to Challenge Exorbitant Cost of Jail Phone Calls Read More »
In the fall of 1982, 20-year-old Belle* did what many of us with significant others do routinely and casually: she borrowed her then-partner’s car to run some errands. She couldn’t have known then the impact
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Thanks to fearless and tenacious courtroom advocacy by LSC’s Project on Predatory Student Lending, in March the U.S. Department of Education announced that it would rescind its unlawful and harmful partial relief policy – for the second time
With bills targeting transgender youth under consideration in more than half of U.S. states, Alexander Chen, founding director of Harvard Law School’s LGTBQ+ Advocacy Clinic, recently shared personal reflections with Slate on how not being
The Legal Services Center invites you to a virtual panel discussion: Advocating for Survivors at LSC How Three Clinics Empower Clients Who Have Experienced Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence Survivors of sexual assault and
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From the Harvard Law School Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs: Keeping Tabs is a Q&A series that follows up with alumni on their careers after graduation, the lasting impacts of their clinical and
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This post was first published by Harvard Law School’s Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs. By Christopher Cruz J.D.’22 I chose to come to Harvard Law School (HLS) because I wanted to gain the
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The New York Times reports that under Secretary Betsy DeVos, the US Department of Education denied almost 130,000 claims from students defrauded by for-profit colleges who were seeking cancellation of their student loans. According to
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Marianna Yang and Rebecca Greening, attorneys and clinical instructors in LSC’s Family and Domestic Violence Law Clinic, recently created an introductory video for first-year Harvard Law students about the clinic’s work and cases. Yang and
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During a televised town hall last week, President Biden again expressed opposition to cancellation of student debt beyond the $10,000 limit proposed by his administration, saying it doesn’t makes sense to cancel student debt for
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