Harvard Defenders primarily focuses on three areas of legal assistance:
- Providing free legal representation to low-income individuals accused in criminal criminal clerk-magistrate’s hearings (aka “show cause hearings”) in the district courts.
- Providing free legal representation to low-income individuals eligible for sealing of their Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI sealings).
- Providing free referral services to callers who need legal assistance beyond the show-cause level.