Harvard Legal Aid Bureau

via Boston Bar Journal by Esme Caramello, Joel Feldman, and Geraldine Gruvis-Pizarro Each week, more than 750 tenants across Massachusetts face eviction in the…

By: Alexis Farmer Affordable housing has yet to be addressed in a presidential debate, even though a national public opinion poll revealed that 85%…

Lisa Owens (City Life/Vida Urbana), Zoe Kronin (Greater Boston Legal Services), Maureen McDonagh (Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School), and Eloise Lawrence (Harvard Legal…

Via WGBH Radio DAVID GREENE, HOST: In many American cities, the cheapest rental housing is single room occupancy, or SRO units or rooming houses.

Via Harvard Law Today  By: Alexis Farmer Four Harvard Law School clinicians—Esme Caramello, Patricia Whiting and Nicole Summers from the Harvard Legal Aid…

Via WGHB By: Chris Burrell A hot real estate market in Boston and surrounding cities is fueling rent hikes and evictions in what has…

By: Alexis Farmer The numerous clinics at Harvard Law School (HLS) are frequently successful in their pursuit of advancing justice. We often read of victories…

Credit: Lorin Granger By: Alexis Farmer Harvard Law School (HLS) student Emanuel Powell J.D. ’19 is the winner of this year’s Gary Bellow Public Service…

Via Harvard Law Today  Credit: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau By: Alexis Farmer Richard Barbecho ’19 is this year’s winner of the Andrew L. Kaufman…

Via Harvard Law Today   Credit: Lorin Granger By: Lewis Rice Liz Soltan ’19 is not like some Harvard Law School students who have known…

Via Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly   Employees who obtained a favorable settlement of their Wage Act claim were considered “prevailing parties” entitled to attorneys’ fees under…

Via The Harvard Gazette Kenneth Parreno, J.D. ’19, (l to r), Senior Clinical Instructor Patricio Rossi, center, Liz Soltan, J.D.’19, and Allena Martin, J.D.’19…

Via Law360  By: Chris Villani HLAB students Kenneth Parreno ’19 and Elizabeth Soltan ’19 with Clinical Instructor Patricio Rossi after oral argument at the…

Via Law360  Source: Pexels By: Chris Villani An employee suing an employer for unpaid wages can recover attorneys’ fees when winning a “favorable settlement,”…

By: Elizabeth Soltan ’19 and Patricio Rossi, Clinical Instructor of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau HLAB students Kenneth Parreno ’19 and Elizabeth Soltan ’19 with…

Clinical Professor Esme Caramello ’99 is among the 2018 Top Women of Law honored by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. The award ceremony, held on October 18, honors…

Via Next City By: Zoe Sullivan Source: Pixbay One day in early Summer 2012, a man yelled up to Alma Chislom from the front…

Lyonel Jean-Pierre Jr. recently joined the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau as a clinical instructor.  He started his law career as a Massachusetts Legal Services Corporation…

A coalition of legal organizations in Boston, including Greater Boston Legal Services(“GBLS”), Justice at Work, the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (“HLAB”), and Volunteer Lawyers Project, in collaboration with community groups in Boston, is bringing justice to victims of wage theft in Boston Municipal Court (“BMC”) Central’s small claims court.

While in law school Cassie Chambers devoted herself to clinical work at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.  In 2016, after a clerkship year, she received a Skadden Fellowship to work on domestic violence issues in Kentucky.  There she discovered that her divorce client, who was a survivor of domestic violence, was required to pay for a divorce attorney for her incarcerated spouse.   Cassie worked to change that. 

From Harvard Gazette—In his last year at the School, SpearChief-Morris has left a mark in the storied history of the organization, which was founded in 1913 to provide legal services to low-income clients in the Boston area.