Legal Profession, Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Government Lawyer (2 fall classroom credits). Students who are accepted…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class This course will explore the application of the rules and the standards of professional responsibility and legal ethics to…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course will explore the rules and the standards of professional responsibility and legal ethics through the lens of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course will examine the rules and standards of professional responsibility and legal ethics with a focus on how…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study the nature of professionalism in American society…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…

Required Clinic Component: Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington Clinic, either during winter-spring (2 winter clinical credits + 8 spring clinical credits) or spring clinic (8…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The course will focus on the rapidly-changing legal system that is designed to regulate government ethics. The course will…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home
In addition to the final exam, students will submit a one-page reading response for each class.

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Government Lawyer (2 fall classroom credits). Students who are accepted…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule Grades will be based principally on a final examination but also, to some…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Government Lawyer (2 fall classroom credits). Students who are accepted…

Required Clinic Component: Government Lawyer: U.S. Attorney Clinic (fall or spring semester). Students who are accepted into this clinic will be enrolled in the clinic…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class Ethical issues can arise in any type of practice and at any point in a lawyer’s work, often unexpectedly,…

Special drop deadline: November 5, 2021 Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam *Cross-Registrants: Please note that cross-registrants interested in taking the Workshop must participate in…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule

Grades will be based principally on a final in-class…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study…

Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 3L (4 fall clinical credits + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take Home Students will write a paper (1500 words) and an exam essay (500 words), both due at the…

Please Note: This by-permission reading group is available only to current HLAB students. Harvard Legal Aid Bureau members see firsthand, on a daily basis, the…

Prerequisite: Admission is by application via email to Susannah Barton Tobin at stobin@law.harvard.edu by October 31, 2020. Please include a paragraph expressing your interest in…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will explore the application of the rules and the standards…

Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 2L (3 fall clinical credits + 1 winter clinical credit + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will explore the rules and the standards of professional…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The legal profession faces many challenges. New businesses are working on disrupting the legal profession, primarily through technology and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The course will focus on the rapidly-changing legal system that is designed to regulate government ethics. The course will…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule

In addition to the final exam, students will…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Ethical issues can arise in any type of practice and at…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule

Students will write a paper (1500 words) and an…

Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 3L (4 fall clinical credits + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam As the seminar description indicates, in this seminar we will use a series of in-depth case studies to examine…

Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 2L (4 fall clinical credits + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam

Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course offers a look at the organization, economics, operation, and…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class. Grades will be based principally on a final in-class examination but also, to some extent, on class participation or assigned…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class
Grades will be based principally on a final in-class examination but also, to some extent, on class participation…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Lawyers are often called upon to help design systems for managing and/or resolving conflicts that support or supplant existing…

Prerequisite: Admission is by application via email to Susannah Barton Tobin at stobin@law.harvard.edu by October 31, 2021. Please include a paragraph expressing your interest in…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course will explore the rules and the standards of professional responsibility and legal ethics through the lens of…

Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam Can professional success be achieved without “playing politics” or “behaving politically”? Can behaving ethically, with integrity & principle, be a…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the discussion,…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will write 2-3 page response papers (which will be graded pass/fail) using the problem to highlight…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course offers a look at the organization, economics, operation, and ideology of the legal profession. We will…