Veterans Organizations Reinstate Lawsuit to Force VA to Amend its Character of Discharge Regulations
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 ...
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Seeking the Right Fix: Tashrima Hossain ’26 on Housing Justice Through Policy Advocacy
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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Lauren Greenawalt ’25 on Empowering, Advancing and Protecting the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Communities
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 ...
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LSC’s Family Justice Clinic: Addressing the Evolving Legal Needs of Families
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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Coming Full Circle: Alfredo Rosales ’24 on Finding Purpose Beyond the Classroom
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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Beyond Safety Nets: Sam Holloway ’24 Reflects on Comprehensive Legal Advocacy Outside the Courtroom
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 ...
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Supporting evolving economic needs and wellbeing in the Consumer Protection Clinic
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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Annika Reno ’24 Gets Introduction to Pursuing Economic Justice with the Consumer Protection Clinic
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 ...
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“The only place that I have learned these things is at LSC, and it is the thing that has reeled me back in for another semester”: LSC Students Reflect on the Value of an Advanced Clinical
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 ...
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Knowledge Comes in Many Forms: Alex Zhang’24 “Learns about Life” from Client in Hospice
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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Annika Reno ’24 Faces Dilemma in Eliciting Emotional Testimony from Client in Federal Court
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 ...
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Movement Lawyering Gives Caroline Hatley’24 Deep Dive into Legal Strategy
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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