Audrey Patten

Audrey Patten joined the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School in 2015 as an attorney in the Consumer Law Clinic, in which she represented domestic violence survivors in debt collections, bankruptcy, and affirmative consumer protection cases as part of a medical-legal partnership with the Passageway Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She then moved into LSC’s Tax Clinic in 2017, becoming a Clinical Instructor in the Tax Clinic in 2018.

Audrey’s tax clinic practice focuses on representing low income clients in cases and controversies before the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Tax Court, and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. In addition, she regularly litigates tax cases in the United States District and Circuit Courts.

Prior to joining LSC, Audrey was a staff attorney in the Battered Women’s Legal Assistance Project/Family Law Unit at Merrimack Valley Legal Services in Lowell, MA. Audrey graduated with a J.D. with Honors from Emory University School of Law. She also holds a Master of Arts in Regional Studies –East Asia from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in International Relations from Brown University.