Tag: Pro Bono

Join us for a conversation with Kendra Albert, a Clinical Instructor with the Cyberlaw Clinic, and Ria Tabacco Mar, a senior staff attorney with the national American Civil Liberties Union’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & HIV Project.

The Pro Bono Honor Roll honors those law firms, solo practitioners, in-house corporate counsel offices, government attorney offices, non-profit organizations, law school faculties, and law students that perform 50 hours of pro bono work during their law school career.

Join HLS TaxHelp as we discuss the problem of predatory tax preparation in low-income communities and how volunteering with TaxHelp helps prevent this in Cambridge and surrounding communities. *Lunch provided.

Join us in welcoming Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children’s Trust. She is the lead attorney in Juliana v. United States, the constitutional climate change case brought by 21 youths against the U.S. government for violating their Fifth Amendment rights to life, liberty, property, and public trust resources. Over her […]

Join us for a discussion with Tony Marino, the Director of Legal Services at the Irish International Immigrant Center (IIIC), and Dr. Fiona Danaher, a pediatrician with Mass General Hospital and Co-chair of the MGH Immigrant Health Coalition about the fight to reinstate the Medical Deferred Action program which let immigrants remain in the country while they or their relatives receive life-saving medical care.

Join us for a conversation with Yee Htun of the HLS International Human Rights Law Clinic and Nadia Aziz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law about strategies to combat hate in local communities. 

Attendees are encouraged to drop in and meet representatives from local legal services organizations and to learn more about the pro bono opportunities in our community. This event is offered to attorneys of all levels, as well as law students in the Boston area.

The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs invites students to come learn about a new clinical opportunity – the Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic, launching in Spring 2020. Join us on Monday, September 30th at 12pm (WCC 3019) to hear more from the clinic instructor.  Spring 2020 clinical placements will be with external […]

The annual Law and Social Change Program of Study’s retreat will take place on Sunday, September 29th from 11am – 3pm at Wasserstein Hall. The retreat is a community-building event for students, faculty, staff and former deans to welcome 1Ls and LLMs interested in the power of law as a tool for social change, and […]