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 trained in individually educating and mentoring students. With clinical placements in-house and at independent organizations across the country in both public and private sectors, 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.
Via LSC Blog Julia Devanthéry, founding director of the Housing Justice for Survivors Project at the Legal Services Center (LSC), has been selected as a 2022 Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and was honored at the Top Women of Law event on November 16. This event celebrated the achievements of exceptional women
November 21, 2022
On November 15, Professor Carol Steiker led a conversation with recent HLS graduates and Capital Punishment Clinic alumni working in the area of death penalty defense. Watch here: This event is part of the Library’s yearlong series of programming in connection with their exhibit, Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame, and Sympathy.
November 18, 2022
By Danny McDonald Via The Boston Globe It is morning in Eastern Housing Court, and Frances Louis is seated on a bench in the gallery of a courtroom, waiting for her case to be called. Outwardly, she appears calm, given the gravity of the case, but later she will admit to having “a headache that
November 16, 2022
By Olivia Klein Abigail was nervous the first time she walked into the courthouse. She’d been working with students at the Family and Domestic Violence Law Clinic, and she wanted to make sure that her story was told in the courtroom. “I thought that I was going to be able to speak, and I did
November 16, 2022
