Harvard Legal Aid Bureau

From Harvard Law Today—Erika Johnson is this year’s winner of the David A. Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award. The award is named in honor of the late Clinical Professor of Law David Grossman ’88, a public interest lawyer dedicated to providing high-quality legal services to low income communities.

From Harvard Law Today—In his work for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Mario Nguyên ’17 often represented survivors of domestic violence. While meeting with him, one woman, crying, confided that she worried her children would be damaged forever by the violence they had seen.

By Diane Ramirez, J.D. ’17—I have been practicing wage and hour law for about a year and a half at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and have seen first hand the power a student attorney can have in helping victims of wage theft recover wages under Massachusetts’ influential labor laws.

From the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau—The Hague Convention is an international treaty which provides a method for resolving the return of abducted children between member nations. Because it is an international treaty, all Hague Convention cases must be decided in federal court.

From Harvard Legal Aid Bureau—Last spring, an HLAB student attorney was able to win a victory for both his client and all tenants in Massachusetts. Louis Fisher ’16 argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the case of Meikle v. Nurse November 5, 2015.

From Harvard Law Today—On the morning of January 9, 2017, Harvard Law School student Dayne Lee ’17 slipped into a suit after three sleepless nights, punctured with dreams about his major oral argument. Later that day, he would argue before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Via Harvard Law Today Highlighting the international experiences of five of the 2016 Chayes Fellows In the summer of 2016, 87 Harvard Law School…

Via Harvard Gazette Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez, J.D. ’17, is entering his second semester as president of the Harvard Legal Aid…

The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs extends a warm welcome to Toiya Taylor (Clinical Instructor) and Lisa Fitzgerald (Clinical Fellow) of the Harvard…

Via HLS News Clinical Professor David A. Grossman ’88 The David Grossman Memorial Lecture, entitled “Eviction, Displacement, and the Fight to Keep Communities Together,”…

Via Harvard Legal Aid Bureau L-R: Andres (community organizer); Nan McGarry J.D. ’17; Natalia (client); Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez J.D. ’17; and Stanford Fraser, J.D. ’16 In…

The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs offers its heartfelt congratulations to Mindy Roseman (Human Rights Program) and Patricia Whiting (Harvard Legal Aid Bureau)…

Via Harvard Gazette In a heartfelt ceremony at First Parish in Cambridge, the Harvard students and alumni who led the effort to open…

Today, Louis Fisher J.D. ’16, student attorney in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB), presented an oral argument in the case of Meikle…

Via HLS News In the summer of 2015, 86 Harvard Law School students worked in 37 countries on a diverse array of projects; 19…

Via the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau Jemel Derbali
Alumnus, Co-founder of WISE Systems
Class of 2013 “At the…

Via the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau Stephanie Goldenhersh Clinical Instructor, Family Practice
Started in 2007 “When I came to…

Via the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau Courtney Lynch,
Student Attorney, Vice President of Membership
Class of 2016 “I want to do…