Jacob Chin

Jacob is a Clinical Instructor where he supervises and teaches students in both the Family Law, and Wage and Hour Practices. He started at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) as a Clinical Fellow in 2021 where he helped create the family defense practice representing parents during family policing investigations and administrative appeals, as well as movement lawyering to support impacted families through community education, policy and impact work. In Wage and Hour Practice, Jacob works with workers centers to support and develop clinics specific to immigrant clients experiencing Wage theft. Previously, Jacob was a Staff Attorney in the Bronx Defenders’ Family Defense Practice, where he represented parents and caregivers fighting to keep their children home or reunify with their families taken by the government in the South Bronx. Before law school, he was a policy analyst working with youth involved in the justice system and alternatives to incarceration; and has spent his career working with youth and families. He was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Jacob is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and New York.