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Mission at LSC

Mission

Working to Educate Law Students for Practice and Professional ServiceWhile Meeting the Legal Needs of the Community

The overarching mission of the Legal Services Center is to be a place of innovation and experimentation for the development of effective approaches to the education of law students and the delivery of legal services.

Academic Mission

  • To provide comprehensive training and supervision to law students in substantive law, practice skills and legal judgment
  • To educate students about the impact of law and social policy on the lives of our clients
  • To educate students about the ways the court system and administrative bureaucracies work for our clients
  • To encourage students to become reflective practitioners by structuring an educational environment where students continuously reflect on their experiences and use such reflection to inform their methods of advocacy

Service & Social Mission

  • To provide high quality legal services in areas most needed by our client communities
  • To be a positive and stable influence in our community
  • To offer community residents the opportunity to learn about some of the legal systems that impact their lives in order to more effectively use these systems to their advantage
  • To educate and inform the courts, agencies and local institutions about our clients lives and legal rights

 


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The WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School
122 Boylston Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 :: Tel 617.522.3003 :: Fax 617.522.0715