Spring Break Pro Bono Trips

Asian Outreach Center uses a community lawyering model to support low-income Asian immigrant communities. Students will conduct legal research and produce resources that will support Asian immigrant communities. Past student research projects have included: developing memos related to client questions and community partnerships; creating fact sheets and Know-Your-Rights handouts; and identifying resources for client populations. 

2L, 3L Eligible. 

Thursday required in person. Hybrid schedule other days to be determined with supervisor.

Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese helpful, but not required. Strong legal research and writing skills preferred. Some experience in immigration law preferred. Lived experience with Boston’s Asian American communities helpful but not required.  

Office is easily accessible by public transportation, Office is wheelchair accessible, Gender neutral restrooms are available, metered street parking available. 

https://www.publiccounsel.net/mh/

Students will perform research on legislative and interstate history regarding discharge and varying levels of security in the context of involuntary commitment. 

1L, 2L, 3L LLM Eligible 

U.S. Citizenship required 

Volunteers fully remote or hybrid. 

Office is easily accessible by public transportation and by car. Free or low-cost parking is available near office, Office is wheelchair accessible. 

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/court-service-center-unpaid-internships-and-volunteer-opportunities 

Day 1 will be civ pro boot camp; the remainder will be 1-on-1 work with court users to complete court forms in probate, housing and district court. 

1L, 2L, 3L, LLM Eligible, Must be eligible to work in U.S. 

5 Days required, In person all days preferred, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday required in-person. 

Cambodian, Spanish, Portuguese language helpful.  

Office is easily accessible by public transportation and by car. Office is wheelchair accessible, gender neutral restrooms are available. 

http://www.discoveringjustice.org

For this volunteer project we are looking for students who are interested in becoming long term supporters and volunteers for our organization.  During their time over spring break we would put them through two types of volunteer training.  

1. Becoming a Courthouse Education Guide (CEG): In our Courthouse Programs we host thousands of visitors to the Moakley during the year. Visitors come to us in the form of field trips, public tours, international law student tours, college trips, etc.  In support of the capacity of our Courthouse Program Staff, we aim to build a robust volunteer cohort who would be trained in giving tours. We would turn to this cohort to support large groups and multi-tour scheduled days. 

2. Final Events Volunteer: In our Mock Trial and Mock Appeal program, students across 32 schools meeting with legal mentors after school to take part in a 9-10 week curriculum that prepares them to be student attorneys. They are given a case that is age appropriate and are assigned to take the defense side or plaintiff. At the end of the sessions, 8-10 schools come to the Moakley Courthouse for their final event where they deliver their oral arguments in front of an actual judge and an audience made up of supporters. Hosting this event at the Moakley requires a lot of staff and we are looking to build up a volunteer cohort to train in final event proceedings who we can turn to if we are needing additional people come May for the event. During the event, volunteers may be asked to help with registration, greet judges and legal mentors, escort a school team to a courtroom and observe their proceedings and escort them out at dismissal.

Other tasks that could be asked of volunteers: 

• Assisting with packing up and shipping out materials/shirts for our Mock Appeal Teams  
• Help put together CEG tour bag materials
• Be assigned to begin research on case development for our Fall Mock Trial 2025 sessions. This years case is about a school that enforced a smart phone ban. A student, Leslie, lead a protest against the ban that disrupted after school activities and students who were for the ban were bullied at this protest. The principal then suspended Leslie for 5 days. Is this against Leslie’s First Amendment rights?
• Assist with office administrative task such as space organization and data input 

NOT eligible for HLS pro bono credit. 

1L, 2L, 3L, LLM Eligible 

 In-person required Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Remote or In-person Monday and Friday. 

Haitian Creole, Spanish and Portuguese is helpful but not required. 

Office is easily accessible by public transportation. Office is wheelchair accessible, gender neutral restrooms are available. We recommend taking public transportation to South Station and then it is about a 10 minute walk to Moakley Courthouse or the Silver Line.

EdLaw Project

The student would be analyzing documents acquired through a public records request to the Problem Resolution System of the Massachusetts Department of Education concerning the use of Emergency Exclusions of students.  If time allows, the student would research potential legal claims regarding these exclusions. 

2L Eligible 

Hybrid schedule to be determined with supervisor.  

Office is easily accessible by public transportation andvby car, free or low-cost parking is available.

https://www.gbls.org/what-we-do/immigration

Student will assist with filling out client immigration applications and potentially hosting pro se clinics, related research. 

2L, 3L Eligible 

Hybrid schedule to be determined with supervisor.  

Haitian Creole, Spanish, Portuguese, French, other languages helpful but not required. 

Office is easily accessible by public transportation. Office is wheelchair accessible. Gender neutral restrooms are available. 

https://mwlegal.org/

Students will be helping with green card applications for Afghan asylees and legal research/country conditions for defensive asylum case from Haiti. 

1L, 2L, 3L, LLM Eligible 

Monday and Friday required in person, Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday in person or remote. 

Office is easily accessible by public transportation or by car, free or low-cost parking is available near our office. Office is wheelchair accessible. Gender neutral restrooms are available.

https://www.northeastlegalaid.org/

Two separate tracks for participating students: One track is the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic where we are preparing for a Tax Court trial scheduled for March 17, 2025, or later the same week. We may need help with trial prep. If the case settles or as time permits, we will assign work on collection cases and appeals cases with the IRS and the Massachusetts DOR.  The second track is consulting for entrepreneurship and small business owners helping clients with corporate compliance with the Massachusetts Secretary of State, employment law compliance for their workers, and related matters.  

1L, 2L, 3L, LLM Eligible 

Permanent Work Authorization required.  

Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday in person required with remote work possible Wednesday and Friday. Monday, March 17, 2025 is the Tax Court calendar call in Boston, so students assigned should come to Tax Court. 

Office is easily accessible by public transportation and by car, free or low-cost parking is available. Office is wheelchair accessible. Our office is located a 5-minute walk from the Lynn Interim commuter rail station, which connects to North Station.  It’s also a 10-minute walk from the Lynn Central Square bus station, which connects with Wonderland (Blue Line) and elsewhere.   

www.ripd.org

Students will be shadowing attorneys in courtrooms. If time allows, students will assist in researching legal questions. 

1L, 2L, 3L Eligible 

In person required Monday- Friday.  

Office is easily accessible by public transportation and by car. Metered street parking is available. 

www.southcoastfairhousing.org

Students will receive training on fair housing issues and work may include: legal research, client intake, reviewing matters for fair housing issues, investigative work, drafting documents, drafting informational materials, drafting internal policies, and assisting with other needs as they arise. 

1L, 2L, 3L, LLM Eligible 

Fully remote M-F 9am-5pm. 

Conflict check required.