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 organizations across the country, and the opportunity for students to create their own independent placements, HLS students participate in more clinical placements 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 her first year as a student attorney in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB), Maddy Scannell ‘26 has helped to secure thousands of dollars in judgments for low-wage Boston-area workers.
February 20, 2025
By Samara Trilling ’25 I grew up in a circle of four houses in Northern California. My best friend lived in the front house, and I lived in the back. Every house had two kids, all within 8 years of each other. We’d ride our bikes around the lamppost in the middle of the shared
February 14, 2025
Joan Steffen, an attorney with the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, worked with the Appalachian Rekindling Project to purchase the land. Steffen said the land purchase is a win not just for Letcher County, but for the country as well.
February 14, 2025
For five decades, John Cratsley has placed students in state and federal judicial internships through HLS’s Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic.
February 12, 2025
Devanthéry has designed and launched a curricular innovation initiative to ensure students across the Legal Services Center’s six public interest clinics develop consistent advocacy skills to be effective and inclusive lawyers — on issues ranging from client-centered lawyering to trauma-informed advocacy to lawyering for racial justice.
February 6, 2025
Health Law & Policy Clinic’s Carmel Shachar ’10 discusses the rapidly evolving legal issues around telehealth care delivered across state lines
February 5, 2025
Harvard Law students secure early win in challenge to Ohio’s buggy light law
February 5, 2025
