HLS Students Serve Veterans in New Clinic

The summer issue of Harvard Law Bulletin highlights the new Veterans Legal Clinic, which provides legal services to veterans in cases involving benefits, discharge, military records, and healthcare, among other issues. The article provides insight into Clinical Professor Dan Nagin’s goals for starting the clinic, how students handle complex cases, and the clinic’s partnership with the law firm Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick, which enables students to gain experience in federal court. As professor Nagin reflects, “[Veterans] cases are very good teaching tools to expose students to legal issues that are rich and complex, not to mention the human dimension of the cases”. More…