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This one-semester package includes both a clinical course and seminar. Students will spend 5 (1-credit), 10 (2-credit), or 15 (3-credit) hours per week in their fieldwork, depending on the number of credits for the clinical portion. In addition, all students will attend a weekly, 2-hour seminar (2 credits). The total package will therefore be offered for 3, 4, or 5 credits, with the 3-credit package offered only to Evening and Special Part-Time Program students. For the clinical portion, the core placements will include the New England Law Clinical Law Office and off-site placements, such as Greater-Boston Legal Services, where students will handle civil cases. Students will be practicing under Rule 3:03 of the Supreme Judicial Court, typically representing indigent clients. An explicit goal of this course is to provide our students with direct experience providing “legal services for the benefit of persons of limited means.” See MASS. R PROF. CONDUCT R. 6.1. Placements in governmental agencies will not be the focus of this clinic, since the placements in other clinical courses are so heavily weighted toward the government sector (e.g. Government Lawyer, Tax Clinic, Administrative Law Clinic, Criminal Procedure II Clinic, Federal Courts Clinic). The seminar portion of the course will focus on public interest law and the public interest lawyer. Classes, or units of classes, will include issues such as: introduction to substantive areas of public interest law (e.g., family law, housing law, government benefits); ethics (e.g. issues affecting public interest lawyers, regulation of the profession and delivery of legal services); clients (unmet legal needs, and issues of poverty, race and gender); the courts (dispensing justice to persons of limited means); and legal education (the role of law schools in preparing lawyers for practice). Issues from the students’ fieldwork will be incorporated into the classes, to strengthen the connections between classroom and fieldwork, as well as theory and practice. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Evidence or Trial Practice. This course satisfies the Experiential Education/Professional Skills Requirement.

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course

Edition

2026

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www.nesl.edu

Prerequisite

Constitutional law. The U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional law more generally have come to occupy a central place in debates about the health of American democracy. Contemporary commentators, including former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, recently have contributed their perspectives on the role of the Court-perspectives that offer a lens through which lawyers can consider numerous constitutional issues currently facing the Court and the nation. Students will gain insights into the current state of constitutional law and the Supreme Court through close reading and discussion of five books, including Justice Barrett’s Listening to the Law.

Once you understand the basics of the law, your next step is to become familiar with different areas of the law and discover where your career passions lie. Choose from more than 100 electives, which include judicial internships, as well as clinics and courses that simulate a practice environment, so you can fine-tune your professional path and gain practical experience that gives you a competitive edge.

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course

Edition

2026

Source

www.nesl.edu

Professor Emeritus Chester is the author of From Here to Eternity? Property and the Dead Hand (2007); Unequal Access: Women Lawyers in a Changing America (1985); the award-winning Inheritance, Wealth, and Society (1982), and has co-authored two volumes (2005) (2018) of the Bogert treatise Trusts and Trustees 3rd ed. He has published numerous scholarly articles dealing with inheritance and trust law, legal history, the law of assisted reproduction and other topics. He was a Visiting Professor of Law at Indiana University (Bloomington); Southern Methodist University; and the University of California (Davis). Professor Chester was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard Law School and attended Cambridge University in England on a Ford Foundation Fellowship. He is a retired Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a current member of the American Law Institute, where he served as Adviser to the new Restatement of the Law of Nonprofit Charitable Organizations. Professor Chester taught Contracts, Wills, Estates, and Trusts, and seminars on various topics including American Legal Thought and Bioethics.

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course

Edition

2026

Source

www.nesl.edu

While you’ll complete the standard application , make sure to select Special Part-time Program. You’ll also need to provide a statement explaining your need to enter the Flexible JD Program. This program is highly selective, so we recommend you apply early. If you’re in good standing at another accredited law school, you may apply to transfer into the program as well.

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course

Edition

2026

Source

www.nesl.edu