By: Elaine McArdle What do you need to be mindful of when working with a client who has PTSD? How do you set appropriate boundaries with clients regarding communications? When trying to prove a client’s eligibility for disability-related benefits, how do you translate medical records into the most […]
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Did you know that Massachusetts has a state program that helps low-income veterans and their families pay for everyday needs like rent, food, medical care, and even therapy? The program is called Chapter 115 benefits.
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Originally Posted in Harvard Law Today on November 05, 2025: Story by Brett Milano A panel of veterans who experienced less-than-honorable discharges recount the many ways that Harvard Law’s Veterans Legal Clinic assisted them One
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By: Elaine McArdle As a second-year law student, Neha Aluwalia ’26 had never taken a deposition in a lawsuit—let alone the deposition of a lawyer in a major class action case. Yet a week before
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By: Rebecca Bowman, J.D. Candidate 2027, Suffolk University Law School Some of my earliest memories are tied to being the child of a veteran of the United States military. I remember walking onto bases with my
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By: Elaine McCardle Among the countless memories that Roger Bertling carries with him from his nearly 32 years as an attorney and clinical instructor at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center—where he helped thousands of people
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By: Elaine McCardle Alexa Rosenbloom, an attorney and clinical instructor in LSC’s Consumer Protection Clinic since 2022, has been named as director of the Clinic following the retirement of Roger Bertling from that role in
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By: Julie McCormack and Elaine McArdle Over 1 million people in Massachusetts—nearly one in five residents—have a criminal record, and most of them, 672,000, are eligible to have their criminal records sealed, including many who
On June 11th, 2025, the Veterans Justice Pro Bono Partnership held its annual discharge upgrade webinar. The training is a central element of our Partnership, which recruits, trains, and mentors attorneys interested in providing pro
Legal Services Center’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic Collaborates to Create ‘Room to Be Me!’ Toolkit By: Elaine McArdle The LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic, in collaboration with The Bronx Defenders and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, has created a toolkit, Room to Be Me!,
For Immediate Release: February 14, 2025 The Veterans Legal Clinic at LSC is excited to share that we have been awarded a generous grant from the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which is dedicated to ensuring that
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Explore the collective work completed at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC) during just a single week in November! Compiled & Written By: Elaine McArdle Consumer Protection Clinic secures victory for client who was victimized
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The State of Innovation: California and Massachusetts Lead Pro-Veteran Efforts DAV Distinguished Speaker Series Examines Changing Veteran Demographics By: Elaine McArdle Today’s military veterans face distinct needs and challenges that are just beginning to be
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Aliyah McLaurin Joins Estate Planning Project, within the Veterans Legal Clinic as DAV Charitable Service Trust Fellow By: Elaine McArdle We are very pleased to announce that Aliyah McLaurin has joined LSC’s Veterans Legal Clinic
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Q & A with Consumer Class Action Expert Stuart Rossman, Access to Justice Fellow at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of HLS By: Elaine McArdle Predatory lending, unfair trade practices, scams against military veterans—for 25
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Dana Montalto, of LSC’s Veterans Legal Clinic, Receives 2024 Dave Myers Award for Work on Behalf of Veterans By Elaine McArdle In recognition of her decade-long effort to persuade the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
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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 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
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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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
