Clinical and Pro Bono Opportunities

Pine Tree Legal Assistance is a statewide, non-profit organization committed to providing high quality, free, civil legal assistance to low-income people in Maine.

VLP is a legal aid organization that connects law students and volunteer attorneys with low-income clients of the Greater Boston Area in order to provide free legal services in civil cases.

This independent clinical is an opportunity for an HLS student to contribute in substantial ways to advance the possibility of creating this Public Bank.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston seeks an intern for Fall 2023. Projects will be related to the ongoing updates to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and its potential impact on communities in New England.

Apply by August 18 for a fall independent clinical with Reproductive Equity Now. Reproductive Equity Now legal interns will support the organization's policy and legislative work through a variety of legal research and advocacy projects.

The Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) is seeking two to three dynamic law students or recent graduates to help Haitians reclaim their democracy against internal repression and external interference.

The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) is a federally funded, independent organization governed by an 11-member board of trustees.  Founded as…

Senior Partners for Justice, a unique pro bono initiative of the Volunteer Lawyers Project, offers an internship program for law students who want to provide…

The Community Enterprise Project (Fall 2018 and Spring 2019) is a by-application division of the Transactional Law Clinics in which students engage in transactional legal…

The following spring clinics still have a few seats available! Please log in to Helios and navigate to the Add/Drop section to enroll in one of these clinics.  Open seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.

If you would like to join one of the clinics below, please email us as soon as possible. Any open seats will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Remote placements for 2 or 3 clinical credits with the following organizations: ACLU Voting Rights Project; Campaign Legal Center; NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Asian Americans Advancing Justice; Free Speech for People. More placements will be added to this list as they are confirmed. Please check for updates to this posting.

Spanish for Public Interest Lawyers is a non-credit class that offers HLS students the opportunity to learn Spanish language skills in a legal context, emphasizing language most commonly used in civil and criminal legal services practice.

The Community Enterprise Project (Spring 2018) is a by-application division of the Transactional Law Clinics in which students engage in both direct client representation and community…

This seminar will allow students who have participated in an HLS clinic or SPO to draw on their collective experiences to explore questions about lawyering for justice in the United States in 2018. The course will take a deep dive into the why and how of systemic change and the role of lawyers in supporting it.

The Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center in Washington, D.C. (“MJC”) is offering a two-credit winter term clinical opportunity for students who are interested in appellate litigation and passionate about criminal justice issues.

The 2018 winter term independent clinical placement will involve working with the New Markets Lab to develop a Case Study that applies understanding of law and regulation to challenges affecting enterprises in the agricultural sector.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is a non-profit law firm dedicated to protecting the free expression of all religious faiths. Becket seeks interns for the winter term to work in its Washington, D.C. office on a variety of Supreme Court, appellate and trial-level matters.