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During the academic year, the Legal Services Center serves as a clinical placement for Harvard Law School students. Each summer, the Center sponsors a ten-week summer program (6/02/08 - 8/08/08) for volunteer law students from across the country. Students interested in working at the Center must commit to do so for a minimum of 25 hours per week for the entire ten-week program. Due to the Center's funding situation, we are unable to provide compensation for summer employment. However, we welcome students who can obtain funding from their own law school, grants from public interest sponsors or who wish to volunteer.
Supervision for students working at the Center is provided by one of our Clinical Instructors - lawyers and paralegals - chosen for their skills and abilities as practitioners and for their skills and abilities to teach, mentor, instruct and guide students through early learning experiences. Each Clinical Instructor has a caseload in one of the Center's areas of practice which is shared with the Instructor's supervisees. While the emphasis is on direct student responsibility, Clinical Instructors assure continuity to clients and take direct responsibility for cases, or aspects of cases, that are too difficult or inappropriate for student practice.
Students at the Center interview people seeking advice or assistance; undertake direct assistance and responsibility to clients; engage in investigation and, often, formal discovery; counsel and advise clients; plan and strategize to achieve the best results for their clients; prepare pleadings for courts or applications to administrative agencies; and research case specific legal issues. Some students appear before courts on contested motions, preliminary matters or assist in a trial; others will represent clients before administrative agencies. Some students may be exclusively involved in planning, advice, arranging and "deal-making" or transactional legal work.
To apply for the Center's Summer 2008 Program: Please e-mail the following information to Cheryl Burg Rusk, rusk@law.harvard.edu no later than January 25, 2008:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Writing Sample (max of 5 pages even if subpart of a larger text)
- Names and Contact Information for two References, and
- The list of your top 3 clinic choices within the Center. (If there is only one clinic you are willing to work in, please indicate just that one clinic. If you are willing to work in any of our clinics, please list and prioritize all of them.) Clinic descriptions are available in the job notice and LSC brochure below.
Additional Resources
For additional information, please see:
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