Tenant Advocacy Project

By Olivia Klein Liz Butterworth, J.D. ’22 Liz Butterworth ’22 is the recipient of the 2022 Gants Access to Justice Award. Butterworth is honored for her zealous advocacy for…

By Olivia Klein A Cambridge mother of five will keep her Section 8 housing voucher thanks to the diligent work of Alison Roberts, J.D. ‘22,…

By Anna Jessurun, JD ’22 Credit: Courtesy of Maddy Gates When I walked out of the new member orientation for the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP)…

By Olivia Klein Left: Ava Cilia ’22, Right: Kaitlynn Milvert ’22  The Skadden Fellowship, which launched in 1988, offers young lawyers two-year fellowships to…

On Friday, October 1, Dick Bauer was honored with the National Lawyers Guild Massachusetts Chapter’s annual Rob Doyle Award, recognizing his exceptional work…

With the fall semester now in full swing, the Tenant Advocacy Project recently held its annual 1L Orientation and Training. Students new to the…

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by Rachel Reed Credit: iStock/JJ Gouin The expiration two weeks ago of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic-related…

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by Rachel Reed Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Credit: Brooks KraftHLS clinics and…

The Fall of 2020 saw the Tenant Advocacy Project busy with a variety of cases, community growth, and new 1L involvement in a remote environment.

For almost a year, Attorney Dick Bauer has been the Clinical Instructor at the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP).  Dick is a graduate of MIT and…

by Rachel Niegelberg J.D.’23 Rachel Niegelberg J.D.’23 I entered law school this fall after ten years as a public school teacher in the New York…

by Grace Yuh The first semester of law school is an important one as students begin to find their footing in the classroom, amongst their…

By Alev Erhan During my first year of law school, I was eager to get away from the HLS bubble and our classroom hypotheticals by…

By: Alexis Farmer Affordable housing has yet to be addressed in a presidential debate, even though a national public opinion poll revealed that 85%…

  Student Practice Organizations often provide 1Ls with their first opportunity to gain practical legal experience at HLS. Each SPO is typically led by…

Via Harvard Law Today  By: Alexis Farmer Credit: Lorin Granger Boston Mayor Marty Walsh speaks in front of the Joint Committee on the…

By: Alexis Farmer Lynn Weissberg On May 17, 2019 the National Lawyers Guild – Massachusetts Chapter (NLG) celebrated its fifty year anniversary at St. Paul…

Via The Harvard Law Record By: Merve Ciplak and Kate Thoreson Sarah Rutherford ’21 Record: Why are you running for DoSO? Sarah Rutherford: I…