LSC’s Family Justice Clinic: Addressing the Evolving Legal Needs of Families
February 22, 2024
Family Law and Domestic Violence Clinic
By Marianna Yang, Lecturer on Law, Clinical Instructor, and Rebecca Greening, Lecturer on Law, Clinical Instructor There is a knock on the door of the apartment where a mother—we will call her Dee*—lives with her ...
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Coming Full Circle: Alfredo Rosales ’24 on Finding Purpose Beyond the Classroom
February 20, 2024
Family Law and Domestic Violence Clinic
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
February 16, 2024
News
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
February 14, 2024
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
January 31, 2024
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
December 19, 2023
Consumer Protection Clinic
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
December 18, 2023
News
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
December 18, 2023
Consumer Protection Clinic
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
November 20, 2023
News
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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Students in the Veterans Legal Clinic continue to secure critical victories for the veterans community.
November 8, 2023
News
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 ...
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LSC’s Marianna Yang, who co-leads the Family Justice Clinic, was in conversation last week with other leaders in the field about Domestic Violence & Gun Regulation.
November 7, 2023
Family Law and Domestic Violence Clinic
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 ...
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Veteran Service Organizations File Lawsuit to Compel VA to Amend its Character of Discharge Regulations
October 25, 2023
News
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, ...
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