Senior Clinical Instructor Jill McCormack with XXXXX at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, spearheads the LSC’s CORI Sealing Initiative with the help of LSC interns like Niko Paladino (check) and other interns.
Harvard Law School students help transform communities and the law every day by supporting people and organizations in need of legal assistance.
A pioneer in the development of experiential clinical education, Harvard Law School offers students hands-on training in a wide range of legal fields, from human rights, immigration, health, and housing law to cyber, tax, and veterans’ law. They do this by serving clients who might otherwise be unable to afford a lawyer.
Through 44 legal clinics and student practice organizations, Harvard Law students—more than 80 percent of whom participate in at least one law school clinic—provide hundreds of thousands of hours of free legal services to clients across the country and the world each year.
For one day in late November, we followed just a handful of these clinics to see their work—and their efforts to advance justice—in action. Here is a look at that day, starting at 5:00 a.m. in Geneva, Switzerland and ending at 11 p.m. on the Harvard Law campus.
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