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Firm receptions have been very popular events, filled with students eager to talk to lawyers and students eager to dine on scallop hors d'oeurves. Your correspondent decided to query the lawyers about some major student concerns, in this ongoing series of investigative journalism, in order to provide answers to those students stuck in the library.
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On January 31, Jeanne Charn stepped down as the director of the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center after more than 30 years of service to Harvard Law School. She and her late husband, Gary Bellow, created Harvard's clinical program from the ground up, and tested out several forms of clinical education before settling on the practice center as we know it today.
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The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau has elected a new Board of Directors, with second-year student Kimberly Harbin replacing 3L Tina Platto at the helm as President. After 93 years in existence, the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau remains a vibrant community of student-attorneys committed to providing free legal services to low-income clients in the areas of housing, benefits, and family law, and for the first time, wage and hour law.
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"Gender is a fundamental organizing principle of society and it ought to be discussed in law school." That is what Mona Lewandowski (1L) said at the end of Monday night's "Gender Forum: The 1L Experience," and it appears that a lot of people at HLS agree with her.
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Last semester, rumors and speculation flew at Harvard Law after several major law firms hinted at potential increases in standard base salaries for first-year associates. The first-year salaries at top firms had held steady at $125,000 for the past five years, and a report issued by the National Association for Law Placement last August called entry-level salaries "remarkably stable.
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Last Wednesday the First Circuit Court of Appeals sat far from their usual location at the John J. Moakley Courthouse in downtown Boston. Instead, the Ames Courtroom was host to a morning session of the court, in which attorneys in six real cases conducted an oral argument before a three-judge panel.
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Last Thursday, Professor Einer Elhauge addressed an audience regarding his work on Global Antitrust Law as part of a year- long speaker series sponsored by the International Legal Studies department and the Graduate Program. The discussion was moderated by Professor William Alford, Vice Dean for the International Program and Graduate Studies.
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A panel of diverse and distinguished speakers presented their views on the future of Asia from February 10-12, 2006 at the Asia Business Conference entitled "Asia Inc.: Economic, Social and Political, Integration and Differentiation." The event was organized by the Asia Business Club, HBS; Harvard Asia Law Society, HLS; and China Caucus, KSG.
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On Wikipedia, they say a folly is an extravagant, useless or fanciful architectural structure. I say that thing in Jarvis Field is Elena Kagan's Folly. For as long as Kagan's tenure as Dean, there's been an inviolate, virginal air around her. At first I interpreted the deference as simply "going easy on the new kid.
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Hot on the heels of everybody's favorite gay cowboy movie and just in time for Valentine's Day comes a tale of love at first sight and with bad timing. Ol Parker's directorial debut, Imagine Me & You, is a touching and funny film that gives new meaning to the moniker "chick flick.
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Twenty-five Harvard Law School students volunteered a week of their winter break, providing free legal and humanitarian assistance to area residents and community organizations in Southeast Louisiana. Additionally, seven Harvard Law School students worked with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in Washington, DC and the Gulf Coast throughout January earning clinical course credit.
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On February 1, Jim Cramer and his crew from CNBC's investment program "Mad Money" took over HLS's Ames Courtroom kicking off the "Mad Money Back to School Tour." Trademark bull and bear plush toys lined the judges' benches set against a backdrop of monitors looping footage of somersaulting cheerleaders.