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Via LSC Blog By mid-semester, the 14 Harvard Law students enrolled in the Veterans Law & Disability Benefits Clinic at the Legal Services Center…

Via LSC Blog Kate Strickland and Rachel Schwarz, Harvard Law students in LSC’s Safety Net Project, submitted testimony last week on two bills under…

via Harvard Gazette Students contribute time, effort, expertise to solving local challenges, helping residents Students from Schools, centers, and programs across the University volunteer…

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via The Practice In this article we revisit three themes from previous issues this year—Clinical Legal Education, …

via LSC blog Panelists highlight the disparities and unmet needs of minority veterans, see hope in greater involvement and action While the military has…

via LSC blog Criminal record sealing is an especially important legal tool useful in addressing inequality and the disproportionate impact the criminal justice system…

via LSC blog The Legal Services Center’s Tax Clinic is now offering assistance to people who haven’t received their stimulus payments. This assistance is…

via Harvard Law Today Through Harvard Law School’s Federal Tax Clinic, students have the unique opportunity represent low-income taxpayers in disputes with the IRS,…

via Harvard Law School YouTube The Legal Services Center’s Veterans Legal Clinic provides legal representation to veterans and their family members when they cannot…

Via Boston Herald By Maria Szaniszlo For years, Massachusetts has had a program that provides financial aid for food, housing, clothing and medical care…

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 the Center for American Progress By: Sara Garcia Under the leadership of Secretary Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Department of Education has sought to…

From Legal Services Center—The ABA Tax Section established the award in 2002 “to recognize one or more individuals or law firms for outstanding and sustained achievements in pro bono activities in tax law.

From Legal Services Center—Eileen’s award comes as a result of her Second Circuit victory in the case Salazar v. King. Her clients were defrauded by the predatory practices of the now-defunct Wilfred Beauty Academy.

From Legal Services Center—Haben Girma, a Harvard Law School alum and alum of LSC’s Disability Litigation Unit (now the Safety Net Project), is featured on the cover of the September issue of the ABA Journal for her consulting and public speaking work encouraging companies to hire people with disabilities and to develop fully accessible products and services.

From Legal Services Center—More than 100 Veterans who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness came to the legal services tent as part of the day’s events.

By Lauren Godles J.D. '17—In law school, we spend three years studying cases, with the expectation that by the end, we will develop a personal judicial philosophy. This judicial philosophy will consist of a set of legal principles and preferred modes of interpretation that will guide our analysis of legal issues for years to come.

Via Legal Services Center Judge Russell delivered the 2016 DAV Distinguished Lecture on Veterans Treatment Courts “It is not often that one gets to…

Via Legal Services Center On November 9th, the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School will host the third annual Disabled American Veterans (DAV)…

Via Legal Services Center LSC volunteers (L-R): Toby Merrill, Lisa Bernt, Audrey Patten, Victoria Roytenberg, Dana Montalto, Betsy Gwin, Ginger Jackson-Gleich, Dan Nagin, Caleb…