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Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic
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"The Legal Services Center is interested in hearing from people who are entitled to receive a free copy of their complete medical records but have not been provided with a free copy of their complete medical records."
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Paul is honored for his exceptional achievements in the Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic of the Legal Services Center (LSC) and the Criminal Prosecution Clinic,…
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Decade after gay ban lifted, many discharged vets still lack full benefits.
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Decades after combat service, local veteran seeks benefits
February 7, 2024
“There is this huge range where service members are lumped together as receiving these bad paper discharges for some things that are really very, very bad. And some are things that, if it happened in the civilian world, wouldn't be punished at all,” said Dana Montalto with the Veterans Legal Clinic at Harvard Law School.
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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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"The last time I said goodbye to Ted*, he was upright in his hospital bed, swaddled in his blue hospital gown with a wide smile. As I looked back at him, I wanted to feel happy. I had successfully executed my first full estate plan for this man that had been a stranger only months before. But all I could feel was a sense of sadness that my time with him had come to an end."
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On the front lines for veterans
November 8, 2023
How Harvard Law’s Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic is helping a former Marine and small business owner get the benefits he deserves…
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Veteran service organizations file lawsuit to compel VA to amend its character of discharge regulations
October 25, 2023
The organizations, represented by the Veterans Legal Clinic and Latham & Watkins LLP, are filing on behalf of thousands of veterans denied VA benefits due…
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Two veterans – one an LSC student and the other a client battling homelessness – help each other in surprising ways
October 2, 2023
"In the military, I found months of training in the U.S. could never replicate the reality of an operational environment while deployed abroad, whether in Afghanistan, West Africa, or Europe. My experience with LSC indicates lawyering is no different."
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Via GBH News
By Craig LeMoult Between World War II and the 2011 repeal of the policy that banned openly LGBTQ+ people from… -
Sam Holloway ’24 Discovers that Criminal Record Sealing is Not Always the End of the Story
June 15, 2023
n this blog post, Sam Holloway ‘24, student in LSC’s Safety Net Program, discusses how he helped a client fully clear her public record.
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The Women’s Bar Foundation presented Destini Agüero, deputy director of LSC, clinical instructor, and director of the Estate Planning Project in the Veterans Legal Clinic, with one of two Nery J. Arrano Pro Bono Awards at its May 4, 2023 fundraising event.
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By Anthony Pericolo ’23 A few weeks after starting the Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic, my instructor, Dan Nagin, approached me about an upcoming…
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Four members of the HLS Class of 2023 have been selected as recipients of the Skadden Fellowship, a two-year fellowship to…
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Strategic lawyering by a team of Harvard Law students led Veterans Affairs to change its long-standing benefits policy. Via Harvard Law Today Last month,…
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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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By Henry Beshar ’22
Via LSC Blog “But you’re not a veteran,” my puzzled mentor remarked after learning that I enrolled in Harvard Law… -
Crooked Judges, Fraudulent Lawyers, and How the Social Security Administration Has Failed 3,500 People
April 8, 2022
By Jeffrey Jiang, JD ’22
via LSC Blog The story of Eric Conn is a years-long saga involving a scam artist who extracted over half…