Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinic

All the ways student debt exacerbates racial inequality — ‘it’s like landing in quick sand’ Via MarketWatch  By: Jillian Berman Eileen Connor, the director…

Via CNBC By: Annie Nova More than 150,000 former students of for-profit colleges filed a lawsuit against the U.S.

Via WBUR  By: Kathleen McNerney Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies before the House Education and Labor Committee at a hearing on ‘Examining the Policies…

Via the Project on Predatory Student Lending Over 158,000 students of abusive colleges applied for loan cancellation, yet the U.S. Department of Education has…

Via the Project on Predatory Student Lending   By: Theresa Sweet Source: Flickr When Theresa graduated from the Brooks Institute in 2006, she never…

Via Harvard Law Today By: Julia Hanna As a 2L, Toby Merrill ’11 was enrolled in a Harvard Law School consumer clinic litigating against…

Via the Project on Predatory Student Lending Toby Merrill Credit: Martha Stewart At the American Constitution Society’s National Convention in Washington, D.C. this week,…

By: Drew Henderson, J.D. ’19 Drew Henderson, J.D. ’19 For years, Corinthian Colleges, a network of over one hundred for-profit schools, defrauded students to rake…

Via the Project on Predatory Student Lending  Last Saturday, Linsdey Withem from the Project on Predatory Student Lending attended a town hall in New…

In a New York Times article, “Education Department Has Stalled on Debt Relief for Defrauded Students” Clinical Instructor and Litigation Director of the Project…

Via the Project on Predatory Student Lending This is Kristina’s student loan truth. “I was focused. I had goals.” When Kristina Jefferson enrolled in…

The Project on Predatory Lending attorneys have been quoted in recent articles regarding the Department of Education’s decisions to cut federal financial to Argosy University,…

Via the Project on Predatory Student Lending Source: Pexels Nearly three years after submitting its original Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request, the Project…

Via the Project on Predatory Student Lending Source: Pexels The harsh reality is that the burdens of student debt are not shared equally. Students…

Clinical Instructor Elieen Connor of the Project on Predatory Student Lending was quoted in a Los Angeles Times  article written by Michael Hiltzik. The article, “SEC…

Via the Project on Predatory Student Lending  Source: Flickr In our Student Loan Truth blog series, our clients share what they really got…

Via Courthouse News Service Source: Pixabay By: Nicholas Iovino A Ninth Circuit judge suggested Friday that the Trump administration’s Education Department used a flawed…

Via PennRecord  Source: Wikimedia Commons By: Jenie Mallari-Torres A Harvard law project is suing the United States Department of Justice, citing alleged breach of…

Via CNBC By: Annie Nova At a recent conference on financial aid, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said that every school should help its students…

Via The Washington Post Source: Flickr.com  By: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel As creditors of ITT Educational Services fight over the remaining assets of the defunct…

Via  adMISSIONS: HLS Kelly Ganon is a current 3L and one of our Admissions Fellows. We recently sat down to hear her reflections on…