WilmerHale Legal Services Center

www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/lsc

Located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, the WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC) is a general practice community law office founded nearly 30 years ago as a clinical practice program for Harvard Law School students. Delivering high quality, civil legal assistance, and handling up to 1,200 cases every year, LSC is the largest in-house clinical placement of Harvard Law School.  The Legal Services Center's diverse clinics provide clinical instruction to second and third year law students and serve as a laboratory for the innovative delivery of legal services.  LSC students are taught and mentored under the supervision and guidance of clinical instructors and fellows in one of the Center's litigation or transactional clinical practices. In addition to its academic year clinical program, LSC also operates a summer program for law students to gain experience in legal services. 

The WilmerHale Legal Services clinics are:

• Administrative/Disability Law Clinic
• Domestic Violence Clinic
• Employment Civil Rights Clinic
• Estate Planning Clinic
• Family Law Clinic
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Law Clinic
• Health Law Clinic
• Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Clinic
• Predatory Lending/Consumer Protection Clinic

Clinical Information

Fall, Winter, or Spring clinical
Open to 2L, 3L students
LLM students by permission in select clinics
Pre-Requisites: None

09/10 Clinical Courses

Consumer Finance
Instructor: Howell Jackson and Peter Tufano
Spring seminar, Spring clinical

Employment Law Workshop: Advocacy Skills
Instructor: Steve Churchill
Fall workshop, Fall clinical

Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change
Instructor: Steve Churchill
Spring workshop, Winter-Spring or Spring clinical

Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating the Family Courts A
Instructor: Robert Greenwald
Fall workshop, Fall clinical

Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating the Family Courts B
Instructor: Robert Greenwald
Spring workshop, Spring clinical

Health, Disability and Estate Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop A
Instructor: Robert Greenwald
Fall workshop, Fall clinical

Health, Disability and Estate Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop B
Instructor: Robert Greenwald
Spring workshop, Spring clinical

Housing Law and Policy
Instructor: David Grossman
Spring course, Spring clinical

Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services A
Instructor: Jeanne Charn
Fall course, Fall clinical

Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services B
Instructor: Jeanne Charn
Spring course, Spring clinical

Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Law Clinical Workshop A
Instructor: Rafael Mares, Maureen McDonagh
Fall workshop, Fall clinical

Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense Housing Law Clinical Workshop B
Instructor: Rafael Mares, Maureen McDonagh
Spring workshop, Spring clinical

Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Workshop A
Instructor: Roger Bertling and Max Weinstein
Fall workshop, Spring clinical

Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Workshop B
Instructor: Roger Bertling and Max Weinstein
Spring workshop, Spring clinical

Contact

WilmerHale Legal Services Center
122 Boylston Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 522-3003