Recent Highlights

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  Through Harvard’s Negotiation and Mediation Clinic, students test classroom experience in the real-world

  Through participation in the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinic (HNMCP), nearly 30 Harvard Law School students have the opportunity to work on projects for real-world clients each year. Founded by Clinical Professor of Law Robert Bordone ’97 in 2006, it is the first legal clinic in the U.S. focusing on dispute systems design and conflict management.

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  Students provide much-needed legal defense services through HLS Criminal Justice Institute

  On June 3, as her classmates celebrated Class Day and prepared for graduation ceremonies, Kristina Matic ’09 stood in Roxbury District Court cross-examining a police officer who claimed her client had driven recklessly on his motorcycle and resisted arrest.

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  Law School students lend a legal hand

  The following article, "Law School students lend a legal hand," written by Colleen Walsh, was published in the May 21 issue of the Harvard Gazette. . The students profiled in the story, David Haller ’09 and Nick Hartigan ’09, both received the Outstanding Student Award from the Clinical Legal Education Association (read related story).

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  In a suite of clinical projects, law students reach out to Boston-area clients

  Last fall, budding real estate lawyer Lauren Smith ’09 enrolled in the transactional practice unit at Harvard Law School’s WilmerHale Legal Services Center with the aim of adding practical experience to her legal education. It proved to be an invaluable decision.