By Monica D. Mohan This summer, I had the opportunity to work as a Summer Associate in the Boston office of Hinckley Allen. The summer program provided me with invaluable lessons I’ve taken back to the classroom during my final year of law school, and beyond. The Hinckley Allen Summer Program taught me to operate [...]
By Kristen Dorfman The summer after my second year of law school I interned with the Army JAG Corps in Fort Bliss, Texas. I had no experience with the military but wanted a different type of experience. Some of the highlights: Watching a Change of Command Ceremony of the 1st Armored Division commander and attending [...]
By Gerald Glover III I was a month into my 3L year when I found myself in the midst of a housing discrimination claim at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. My clients sought legal help because they were evicted after the family’s oldest daughter had a child. In Massachusetts, landlords are required to remove all [...]
By Yolanda Mendoza-Flores During my third year of law school, I was a part of a team of clinic students that successfully persuaded three federal judges in the First Circuit Court of Appeals to side with us and release a 41-year-old Jamaican citizen who was about to be deported. This decision overturned the highest immigration [...]
By Nicholas M. Hasenfus The first time I met my 16-year-old client, he was in lock-up and crying. I was assigned the case in the Juvenile Defenders Clinic, which I joined my third year at Suffolk Law School. On my first duty day at the Boston Juvenile Court, I was very unsure what to expect. [...]
By Debbie Aderinto I was born in Ibadan, Nigeria and lived there until I was 11 years old. I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer sometime around my fourth birthday. I first discovered what a lawyer did through my grandmother who owned several residential and commercial properties in our home state. I would [...]
By Priscilla Guerrero A carton of eggs. That was my thank you gift and payment from my first client in South Africa: the daughter of a chicken breeder. Her 4-year-old son Tim was being denied citizenship in South Africa despite being born there. I spent the summer after my second year in law school as [...]
By Marissa Louro If there is one tip I could give to incoming 1Ls, it is to find a 2L at the top of his or her class, and mimic that person’s study habits. While there is no one formula to succeeding in law school, I found that those who had a successful 1L year [...]
By Tiffany Andrade I first met my client in jail in Boston. He is from Cabo Verde and had been in the United States since he was a child. He entered the United States legally but overstayed his visa. I was assigned his case as a third-year student in Suffolk Law’s Immigration Clinic. He had [...]
By Gary Prado I signed up to teach constitutional law in Boston area high schools because I saw this as the ultimate opportunity to give back to the community that raised me. I joined the Marshall-Brennan Fellowship program as a second year student, but had been looking forward to it since I applied to Suffolk [...]
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