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For more information about this clinic, please visit the Clinic Website, Clinic Q&A and OCP Blog Highlights. In addition, as this clinic is part of the Legal Services Center (LSC), you are encouraged to visit LSC’s Clinical Student FAQs page. LSC runs a shuttle from campus and provides a travel subsidy to students (more information on the FAQ page.)

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement.

Required Class Component: Consumer Protection Clinical Seminar (2 fall classroom credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in this clinic will automatically enroll you in the required course.

Additional Co-/Pre-Requisites: None.

By Permission: No.

Add/Drop Deadline: August 21, 2026.

LLM Students: LLM students may enroll in this clinic through Helios.

Placement Site: WilmerHale Legal Services Center (Jamaica Plain).

The Consumer Protection Clinic combats abuses of consumers by the financial services industry and sellers or financiers of consumer goods, and reversing the negative consequences that can result from those abuses.

The Clinic is primarily litigation-based in the following areas:

• defending consumers against debt collection lawsuits in federal court; and
• representing consumers in affirmative litigation against high cost and abusive creditors, as well as unscrupulous businesses.

We enforce the rights of our clients using the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, federal and state fair debt collection laws, as well as federal and state consumer protection laws.

Students in the Clinic gain extensive experience with a variety of practical skills, including, but not limited to: interviewing clients, analyzing financial documents, drafting complaints, participating in discovery and motion practice, engaging in oral advocacy before judges and clerk magistrates, and developing litigation strategies

For more information on the Consumer Protection Clinic, see our website or email Alexa Rosenbloom at arosenbloom@law.harvard.edu.

Successful completion of appropriate written work in this offering satisfies the professional writing requirement for matriculants to the J.D. program from 2023 onward.

Students are encouraged to leave open Monday and/or Thursday mornings for clinic hours to optimize court time.