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The Administrative/Disability Law Clinic works to secure and protect income and health care benefits for disabled and elderly clients through trial-like advocacy before administrative law judges. Moreover, by focusing our work on client cases with novel issues or traditionally unsuccessful yet deserving claims (i.e., representing large numbers of younger individuals with mental impairments) our practice attempts to translate individual case advocacy into systemic change and policy reform. Hearings are primarily before Social Security Administration administrative law judges, although students also represent clients on appeals from adverse agency findings before federal appeals court judges.
Students working in the Clinic interview clients, conduct extensive factual investigations, produce legal research and writing, work with experts, prepare witnesses, and present cases before administrative law judges.
For academic year 2008-2009, students wishing to enroll in this clinic must enroll in the Health, Disability and Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop A (fall) or B (spring). We also encourage interested students to concurrently enroll in any of the following courses: Disability Law (spring); Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services (A or B); Legal Profession: The Lawyering Process (A2 or B1); Legal Needs of Moderate Income Clients (fall).
The Administrative/Disability Law Clinic is part of the Center’s Health, Disability and Planning Practice Group. For more information on the Clinic, contact Julie McCormack, Clinical Instructor, at jmccorma@law.harvard.edu, (617) 390-2578. |
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