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Brendan St. Amant (2L, Health, Employment, Living Legacy, and Planning [HELLP]) recently won disability benefits for a client at the Legal Services Center. The client, who is about 43 years old, grew up in Boston and had been working as a carpenter and a house painter when he injured his head in a fall from a rooftop.
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Professor Jack Goldsmith introduced him as "the most important legal analyst you've never heard of." Yet a great number of students turned out to hear Ben Wittes speak. Wittes is the mind behind the Washington Post's unsigned editorials regarding Supreme Court rulings, developments within the federal judiciary, and of particular import these days, judicial confirmations.
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The Harvard Immigration Project delivered the following excerpted letter to DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday night, signed by 36 students. Dear Secretary Chertoff: As students and future practitioners of the law, we feel compelled to articulate our deep concerns about the impact of several DHS decisions and strategies on the rights of asylum-seekers, immigrants, and their families in the United States.
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Special Master of the 9/11 Victims' Compensation Fund Kenneth Feinberg shared his impressions at the October 11 Program on Negotiation Dispute Resolution Forum. After a brief plug for his new book, "What is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11," Feinberg spoke about his involvement with the fund and why he believes the development of such a fund will never happen again.
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With the mid-term elections less than one month away, the HLS Democrats have been stepping up their involvement in campaigns. On Saturday, October 14, more than a dozen members of the organization traveled to Rhode Island to join the Yale Law School Democrats in campaigning for Sheldon Whitehouse, the Democratic candidate for U.
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On Monday, October 6, 2007, the International Law Journal kicked off its 2007-08 Brown Bag Lunch Series with a lively discussion co-sponsored by the National Security and the Law Society with Professors Goldsmith, Heymann, and Goodman regarding the implications of the Military Commissions Act.
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Over the past two weekends, the Harvard Law School softball team successfully defended its title at the 5th Annual All-Boston Law School Softball Tournament. The victory made a statement on the national law school softball scene that HLS will be a force to be reckoned with at the National Championships at UVA this April.
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Good service is not as evident when you go to a restaurant as a party of two, arriving on time to your reservation, ordering standard fare, and not asking for substitutes due to your gluten-free, peanut-intolerant, onion-despising diet. Things get much more complicated when you deviate from this "How to Be an Easy Dining Patron" protocol.
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Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson Though it's already been out long enough to have been knocked from the top spot at the box office by The Grudge 2, Martin Scorsese's The Departed should make an appearance on just about anyone's to-see list before it departs theaters - it's Scorsese's best film since Goodfellas.
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It is, after all, an election year, so a bit of huffing and puffing about the recent Military Commissions Act ought to be excused ... as long as no one takes it too seriously. Not that the issues involved are unimportant - they are extremely important - but the effects of this bill are both sensible and limited.
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Just as it does every year this time, the season has clearly changed at Harvard Law School. We're not referring to the falling leaves or the failed Sox. We're talking about hundreds of 2Ls donning business attire for their annual migration to the Charles Hotel.
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OCI is over. You have survived three weeks of multiple interviews every day. You have taken full advantage of the unique opportunity to hone your interviewing skills by sampling the interviewing techniques of the representatives of over 30 firms. And hone you have.