With 38 clinics and 11 SPOs to choose from, you may be wondering which clinic will meet your academic and experiential learning goals.
Learn more about the clinics before 2024-2025 clinical registration, open from March 26 at 9:00 am through March 28 at 5:00 pm.
Here, you can explore clinics and SPOs by legal skills, topic area, and placement location.
Browse by skills
Advocacy & Policy
- Draft legal memoranda
- Draft policy papers
- Community outreach & coalition building
- Prepare comments on proposed rules
Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Conflict analysis
- Consensus building
- Facilitation
- Negotiation
Appellate Work
- Research and draft briefs
- Written and oral advocacy
- Client counseling
- Developing strategy
*Amount of appellate work varies each semester
Civil Litigation
- Client counseling
- Impact litigation
- Trial preparation
- Litigation and courtroom experience
- Research and writing
Criminal Law
- Trial preparation
- Factual and legal investigations
- Interview witnesses and clients
- Argue motions and try cases before a court
- Litigation and courtroom experience
Individual Client Representation
- Interviewing and counseling
- Litigation and courtroom experience
- Oral advocacy
- Problem solving
Transactional Practice
- Draft and review contracts
- Issue identification and deal strategy
- Statutory and regulatory research
- Community outreach and coalition building
- Client counseling
Browse by topic area
Government Lawyering
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic
- Government Lawyer: Attorney General Clinic
- Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington Clinic
- Government Lawyer: United States Attorney Clinic
- Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic
Criminal Law
- Capital Punishment Clinic
- Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic
- Crimmigration Clinic
- Criminal Justice Institute
- Institute to End Mass Incarceration Clinic
Civil Rights
- Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic
- Cyberlaw Clinic
- Election Law Clinic
- Employment Law Clinic
- Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington
- Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
- Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
- Housing Law Clinic
- Institute to End Mass Incarceration Clinic
- LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic
- Religious Freedom Clinic
- Veterans and Disability Law Benefits Clinic
Advocacy & Policy
- Animal Law & Policy Clinic
- Child Advocacy Clinic
- Cyberlaw Clinic
- Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic
- Education Law Clinic/TLPI
- Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic
- Food Law and Policy Clinic
- Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington
- Health Law and Policy Clinic
- Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
- International Human Rights Clinic
Economic & Housing Justice
- Consumer Protection Clinic
- Family Justice Clinic
- Employment Law Clinic
- Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
- Housing Law Clinic
- Tax Litigation Clinic
- Transactional Law Clinics
- Veterans Law & Disability Benefits Clinic
Business & Tech
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Click to view clinics by Areas of Interest
- Administrative and Regulatory Law
- Courts, Jurisdiction, and Procedure
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Gender and the Law
- Human Rights
- Legal Profession and Ethics
- Poverty and Economic Justice
- Race and the Law
Browse by location
On campus in Cambridge
- Animal Law and Policy Clinic
- Criminal Justice Institute
- Crimmigration Clinic
- Cyberlaw Clinic
- Education Law Clinic/TLPI
- Election Law Clinic
- Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic
- Food Law and Policy Clinic
- Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
- Harvard Dispute Systems Design Clinic
- Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
- Health Law and Policy Clinic
- International Human Rights Clinic
- Institute to End Mass Incarceration Clinic
- Mediation Clinic
- Religious Freedom Clinic
- Transactional Law Clinics
- Youth Advocacy & Policy Lab
Jamaica Plain at the Legal Services Center (LSC)
- Consumer Protection Clinic
- Family Justice Clinic
- Housing Law Clinic
- LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic
- Tax Litigation Clinic
- Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic
Externship placements across Massachusetts and the country
- Capital Punishment Clinic
- Child Advocacy Clinic
- Criminal Prosecution Clinic
- Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic
- Employment Law Clinic
- Federal Courts Clinic
- Government Lawyer: Attorney General Clinic
- Government Lawyer: United States Attorney Clinic
- Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic
- Sports Law Clinic