Tag
Legal Services Center
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LSC students reflect on the value of an Advanced Clinical
January 3, 2024
For most students, an advanced clinical provides opportunities to deepen their advocacy skills, experiment with different case types, test out different lawyering tools, take on increasingly complex matters, and/or partner further with one or more clinical supervisors whose mentorship they value.
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Keeping It Real
December 13, 2023
‘One of the true giants in the history of clinical education,’ Jeanne Charn has inspired generations of students and served countless clients.
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Via LSC Blog Over the past five years, the Legal Services Center (LSC) has continued to expand and evolve in order to address…
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Small Claims Court op-ed based on ‘series of faulty premises, misguided assumptions’
February 16, 2023
By Alexa Rosenbloom, Matt Brooks, Ariel Clemmer, and Ericka Lezcano
Via Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly In their commentary in the Jan. 30 issue, “… -
‘I wish there were more Maureens in the world’: 25 Years at LSC
January 12, 2023
By Olivia Klein This January, Maureen McDonagh, managing attorney of the Legal Services Center (LSC) and director of the Housing Law Clinic and lecturer on…
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Julia Devanthéry Honored with Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Top Women of Law Award
November 21, 2022
Via LSC Blog Julia Devanthéry, founding director of the Housing Justice for Survivors Project at the Legal Services Center (LSC), has been selected as…
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‘We want to be your voice’
November 16, 2022
By Olivia Klein Abigail was nervous the first time she walked into the courthouse. She’d been working with students at the Family and Domestic Violence…
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Following court challenge by the Legal Services Center, VA expands access to benefits for LGBTQ+ veterans’ surviving spouses
October 17, 2022
Via LSC Blog BOSTON, Massachusetts — Yesterday, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced it is ending enforcement of a marriage duration requirement that discriminates against survivors of LGBTQ+ veterans, including Lawrence Vilord,…
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Holistic Care through Interdisciplinary Partnership
September 20, 2022
By Olivia Klein “It just makes sense.” Samir Hanna, clinical instructor at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center’s (LSC) Housing Law Clinic,…
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The Project on Predatory Student Lending Relaunches as Independent, Nonprofit Organization
August 2, 2022
Via LSC Blog The Project, which has grown to represent over one million student borrowers, will officially spin-off from the Legal Services Center at…
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LSC CORI/Criminal Record Sealing Summer Workshop Series
July 18, 2022
Via LSC Blog Seal or Clear Your MA Criminal Record! As many as 1 in 3 adults in the US have a criminal record,…
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‘Shadow pandemic’ of domestic violence
July 5, 2022
Via The Harvard Gazette
By Liz Mineo At the onset of the pandemic, the number of calls into hotlines went down. “But that didn’t… -
Via LSC Blog The tax issues faced by Native Alaskan tribal members are unusually complex. Those complexities stem not only from the area’s chief…
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Via LSC Blog Although the Supreme Court has been sharply divided on a host of issues this term, it ruled unanimously this spring in Boechler…
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When Perpetrators of Domestic Violence Use Civil Court System to Re-Victimize Survivors
April 25, 2022
By Madeline Finnegan, J.D. ’23
Via LSC Blog While domestic violence is sometimes dealt with in the criminal justice system, more frequently it is… -
By Stephanie Keleman, J.D. ’22
Via LSC Blog I lost my first appeal, and I am not sad. Over the course of a year,… -
Fighting for Privacy, Fighting for Dignity
April 4, 2022
A transgender individual heads to their local DMV for a standard appointment – a registration renewal or driver’s license issuance. Just like the person at the…
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‘Doing Justice’ Together: An Interview with LSC Safety Net Project Director Julie McCormack
January 10, 2022
This interview appeared in the Brown Political Review. Julie McCormack is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, co-teaching “The Poverty Law Workshop –…