Harvard Legal Aid Bureau

Vandana Apte, student attorney at the Bureau’s family practice and co-president of @hls_arj, recently obtained a large settlement for her client in her divorce matter! Vandana had worked closely with her client over the course of two years. harvardlegalaid.org/hlab-obtains-f…

'The daily fight to improve the life of one individual at a time is also a wonderful use of your legal degree.' 2023 Harvard Law Skadden Fellows reflect on their clinical experiences and their biggest takeaways from advocacy work. hvrdlaw.me/9sXV50NxkB8

So proud of Sarah Rosenkrantz, HLS ’23 and a student attorney in our Housing practice, for being awarded the Skadden fellowship! Sarah will be working at @BostonLegalAid and focusing on preserving Section 8 vouchers for tenants facing eviction. clinics.law.harvard.edu/blog/2023/03/4…

Thank you @DorothyERoberts for creating the space, scholarship, and movement for us to do this work!

"When we target poor families for not having food in the fridge, we are wasting resources on punishing people when we could be supporting them." @HarvardLegalAidlaunches practice to help parents facing investigations by DCF hvrdlaw.me/IAmJ50NnKSv hls.harvard.edu/today/helping-…

What an exciting and monumental change at ⁦@Harvard_Law⁩! Thanks ⁦@legallychin⁩ and ⁦@elizabethtuttle⁩ for spearheading this urgently-needed clinic dedicated to family defense practice. 🙏🏾👏🏾🤎 hls.harvard.edu/today/helping-…

We are co-sponsoring this eye-opening discussion about Haaland v. Brackeen hosted by the Harvard Native American Law Students Association next Wednesday! Please come if you can!

Check out this @BostonGlobe article on Boston's housing crisis, featuring HLAB's Attorney for the Day program and Clinical Instructor, Pattie Whiting. "For Pattie Whiting...those pro se numbers show that 'the system is fundamentally unfair.'"

"For Pattie Whiting, a senior clinical instructor at @HarvardLegalAid, those pro se numbers show that the 'system is fundamentally unfair.' It isn’t so much broken as it is working exactly the way it’s designed, said Whiting."

Check out HLAB '22 alum @CMargolis's article--just out in @SocialChangeNYU. Her case study of D.C.'s Defund movement provides a model for reducing the power of police unions and their role in facilitating racialized violence.

HLAB students, Jazmine Phillips-Acie and Sara Tsai worked with HLAB Clinical Instructor Esme Caramello to submit a very persuasive amicus brief focusing on housing law arguments against eviction-by-injunction! Read more here: clinics.law.harvard.edu/blog/2022/08/s…

Shoutout to former HLAB president Lam Ho '08 for the feature in the latest Harvard Law Today article: today.law.harvard.edu/feature/power-… via a @Harvard_Law

#CLVU is grateful to finally meet the sword and shield team in person after <2yrs of zoom meetings. We are #honored to have such a powerful organizing and legal defense team in the #HousingJustice movement. #WhenWeFightWeWin @HarvardLegalAid @BostonLegalAid @MassLawReform

Check out an HLAB student, Isaiah Feldman-Schwartz, interviewed (in Spanish!) on this Telemundo segment about CLVU and tenants rights! telemundonuevainglaterra.com/noticias/local…

The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a curricular law clinic of Harvard Law School, is seeking a full-time Clinical Instructor to supervise law students in their representation of low-income clients in civil legal matters.  Apply below! #jobDetails=1939027_5341" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

@Harvard_Law and HLAB are recruiting for a Clinical Fellow! Know any interested candidates? Send them our way! hls.harvard.edu/deadline/2021-…

Tonight we’re rallying & marching through #EastBoston to stop #evictions in the pandemic! We’re calling on #mapoli to pass the COVID-19 Housing Equity Bill to fill the gaps in current #eviction protections! #HousingEquityMA 🧵

HLAB signed on to the amicus brief in support of the Defendants in Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp., v. The School Committee of the City of Boston. brownrudnick.com/press_release/…

Urge your representatives to pass #HousingGuaranteeMA! Click this link to find easy ways to contact your representatives: linktr.ee/HarvardLegalAi…

HLAB 3:03s Kiah Duggins & Sam Gilman discuss COVID-19’s impact on tenants in MA and ways you can help today.law.harvard.edu/?p=95801