Learning by Doing: A Student’s Perspective from LSC’s Safety Net Project
By Bryan Sohn Before law school, I spent four years working in the education and non-profit world. By the end of my 1L year, I was feeling frustrated about being trapped in the “HLS bubble.” ...
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Mayor Pete Answers My Question About Predatory For-Profit Colleges
Last Saturday, I went to a town hall in New Hampshire hoping for the opportunity to ask Pete Buttigieg one question: Would he encourage his education department to cancel federal student debt from predatory for-profit colleges? I ...
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Innocent Spouse Relief in a Tax Case
By: Oladeji M. Tiamiyu J.D. ’20 Tim* never could imagine how complicated his taxes would become. A disabled veteran following physical injuries from military service, Tim found a steady job. He later discovered his former ...
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Harvard Gazette: LSC puts compassion into action
By Clea Simon. Published by the Harvard Gazette on April 11, 2019. Photos by Heratch Ekmekjian. “Reaching out to others is how you find out who you really are,” said Daniel Nagin, vice dean of ...
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The Department of Education Is Still Trying to Take Students’ Tax Returns
The rights of more than 100,000 borrowers are affected by this court ruling. Update, March 28, 2019: Even after a federal judge told it to stop, the Department of Education is still trying to get ...
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My Student Loan Truth: Kristina’s Virginia College Story
In our Student Loan Truth blog series, our clients share what they really got from their for-profit college and how the debt affected them. Their experiences demand a public reckoning on student debt and an end ...
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Despite Court Order in it’s Favor, the Project on Predatory Student Lending Continues to Wait for DOJ to Produce Documents
Nearly three years after submitting its original Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request, the Project on Predatory Student Lending is still waiting for the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to fulfill its legal obligations to produce ...
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Higher Education is Failing Students of Color, but Congress Can Help
The harsh reality is that the burdens of student debt are not shared equally. Students of color borrow more on average than other students seeking the same degree, and are two to three times more ...
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Argosy University Stipends
In January of this year, Dream Center Education Holdings—the parent company of Argosy and several other schools—entered into a federal receivership. A receivership occurs when a court appoints someone outside a company to control the ...
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Ensuring Veterans Aren’t Left Behind
Steven Kerns, 2L at Harvard Law School As a veteran, I came to Harvard Law School’s Safety Net Project within the Veteran’s Legal Clinic to help bridge the civilian- military divide. SNP offered me a ...
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Students’ Legal Skills Help Prevent Homelessness
William* was feeling hopeless. Elderly, disabled, and receiving treatment for a recent kidney transplant, he was stunned when his landlord unexpectedly served him with a no-fault notice of eviction. With his health failing in the ...
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Mass. Attorney General Maura Healey to Keynote LSC 40th Anniversary on April 5th
LSC is honored to announce that “The People’s Lawyer” — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey — will be the keynote speaker at the 40th anniversary celebration for the WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC) of Harvard ...
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