Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs (OCP)
Wasserstein Hall, Suite 3085
6 Everett Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Clinics give students hands-on legal experience under the supervision of attorneys. With clinical placements in-house and at independent organizations across the country, and the opportunity for students to create their own independent placements, HLS offers more clinical opportunities than any law school in the world.
Clinics are open to 2L, 3L, and LL.M. students. Each clinic is tied to a classroom component: students receive clinical credit for their legal practice in clinics and academic credit for the course component. In addition, most clinics allow students to fulfill HLS’s 50 hours pro bono graduation requirement.
In remote Alaska, Harvard Law students spent 12-hour days during spring break preparing tax returns for indigenous communities. By Elaine McArdle Via Harvard Law Today his March, as some of their classmates left Cambridge for warmer climates, ten Harvard Law School students trekked to arctic Alaska during spring break to help prepare tax returns for
March 29, 2023
By Olivia Klein Four members of the HLS Class of 2023 have been selected as recipients of the Skadden Fellowship, a two-year fellowship to pursue public interest law on a full-time basis. The Skadden Foundation launched the fellowship in 1988, in line with their mission aiming to expand the legal services available to economically disadvantaged
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HLAB launches Family Defense Practice to help parents facing investigations by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families By Colleen Walsh Via Harvard Law Today For Olivia Murray ’23, witnessing how the criminal legal system interacted with her family and friends in her home state of Florida inspired one of her current interests at Harvard
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By Zachary Goldstein ’23 For those members of the Class of 2023 who are interested in the intersection of law and politics, our time at law school has been anything but calm. Over the three years, we have witnessed two Supreme Court confirmation hearings, the 2020 presidential election and the efforts by some to subvert
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