Attorneys and Faculty

Noel Roycroft is TLC’s Director. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law with Harvard Law School. She joined the Transactional Law Clinics as a Clinical Instructor in 2018.  Before coming to Harvard, Noel was an associate in the corporate department of Ropes & Gray, LLP and a member of the firm’s asset management group where she focused her practice on representing investment products, their boards, and managers in transactional, regulatory, and compliance matters. Noel was also previously a fellow and associate counsel with the national office of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Prior to gaining her law degree, Noel worked in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where she was Chief of Staff to a Committee Chair and State Representative, and worked in various non-profit positions, including in fundraising and development. Noel is also the supervising attorney of the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project. Noel received her B.A. from Bowdoin College, graduate certificate in non-profit management from Northeastern University, and J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law.

Erin joined the Transactional Law Clinics as a Clinical Instructor in the Fall of 2024. Before coming to Harvard, Erin worked as an entertainment lawyer at The Walt Disney Company and Netflix, where she negotiated deals and drafted agreements for rightsholders, writers, directors, producers, performers, and other talent for scripted television series. She also previously practiced transactional law as a corporate associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, specializing in M&A and investment fund transactions. Prior to her legal career, Erin was a sixth-grade teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District through Teach For America and an English teacher for the Seoul public school system. Erin received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Carmen Halford joined the Transactional Law Clinics of Harvard Law School as a Clinical Instructor in 2021. Carmen is also the Supervising Attorney of the Recording Artists Project and a Lecturer on Law for Fall 2024 teaching a first of its kind reading group: Second Chance Entrepreneurship: barriers & opportunities to achieve financial independence for the formerly incarcerated.

Before coming to Harvard, Carmen worked as a transactional associate at the New York firm Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C. where she concentrated her practice on mergers and acquisitions, including music catalog sales, debt and equity financings and general corporate matters. She regularly counseled individuals as well as U.S. and foreign enterprises across a wide breadth of industries, cultivating extensive experience in primary and secondary equity sales of private companies, secured and unsecured financings and other complex commercial transactions, and also regularly acted as outside general counsel to many of her clients. Prior to that position, Carmen was a global transactions associate at the New York office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Carmen obtained her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in International Studies with a minor in Chinese Studies from the University of South Carolina. Prior to her legal studies, Carmen worked in the marketing department of CBS Interactive (China) in Beijing.

Natasha joined the Transactional Law Clinics as a Clinical Instructor in the Fall of 2025. 
 
Before coming to Harvard, Natasha worked as senior legal counsel at Meta, where she advised Instagram product management, software engineering, data science, and commercial partnership teams on general legal matters related to Reels, Feed, Explore, and Stories for and was lead product counsel for an Instagram School accounts product launch. Natasha also led the marketing and trademarks legal team at Splunk (now a Cisco company), where she negotiated a global, multi-million-dollar, multiyear renewal of Splunk’s commercial partnership agreement with McLaren Racing and handled all event, sponsorship, technology, and talent agreements for Splunk’s annual user conference.  
 
Natasha received her B.A. from the University of Virginia, J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, Computer Science for Lawyers executive education certificate from Harvard Law School, and legal education certificate from Eugene Dupuch Law School (Bahamas). 

Nick joined the Transactional Law Clinics as a Clinical Instructor in the Winter of 2025.

Prior to coming to Harvard, Nick managed the business and legal affairs of three international television production companies based in London where he negotiated deals and drafted agreements for all aspects of television production and distribution. He was previously a partner at Hansen Jacobson, et. al., a boutique entertainment talent law firm based in Beverly Hills, where he negotiated deals and drafted agreements for production companies, rightsholders, writers, directors, producers, performers, and other talent in the film and television industries. Nick previously practiced media distribution law as an associate at Covington & Burling LLP and Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Los Angeles where he specialized in television and new media distribution agreements for programming networks and sports leagues. He also previously practiced corporate transactional law in Silicon Valley as an associate for Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, specializing in private and public securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate representation for technology companies.

Nick received his B.A. from Duke University and J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Brian Price joined Harvard Law School in 1997 as Senior Clinical Instructor of the Community Enterprise Project at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
He was appointed Director of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center in July 2006 and appointed Clinical Professor of Law in November 2007. In July 2009 Brian became Director of the Transactional Law Clinics. Brian also serves as Faculty Advisor for the Recording Artists Project and the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project, student organizations at Harvard Law School.

Before coming to Harvard, Brian was General Counsel and Senior Director of Certification and Enforcement at the Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance within the Massachusetts Department of Economic Development. Brian was previously  Assistant Counsel for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
Brian has worked as a sole practitioner in his own community-based law practice specializing in general business, corporate, entertainment, real estate, and non-profit law. He received his B. A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Brian retired from Harvard Law School in July 2024, after 27 years as Director of the Transactional Law Clinics. Please read this Harvard Law Today article about Brian’s career and retirement.

Alexander Horn joined the Transactional Law Clinics of Harvard Law School in 2013, as the Program Administrator for the Clinic, and a Faculty Assistant to Professor Brian Price. Alexander supports the legal and academic work of the Clinic’s attorneys and enrolled students, who provide free and low-cost legal services to clients in the metropolitan Boston Area. Alexander also works with two Student Practice Organization (SPOs), The Recording Artists Project (RAP), and Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Program (HLEP).

Alexander’s background is in libraries and museums, having worked for six years at Houghton Library, Harvard University’s rare books library. Alexander holds a B.A. in Biology and Psychology, from Dartmouth College.