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Harvard Law School’s Prison Legal Assistance Program (PLAP) will continue to allow first- and second-year law students to serve as free legal counsel for prison inmates, despite previous criticism from the Massachusetts Department of Corrections...
...decision was made by Acting DOC Commissioner Kathleen M. Dennehy after a public hearing was held to determine whether PLAP should be held to Rule 303 of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which stipulates that first- and second-year law students not be allowed to represent clients in trial proceedings, according to DOC spokesperson Justin Latini...
...rule had not previously been applied to PLAP, whose members represent inmates in administrative prison hearings that deal with issues such as discipline violations and parole. The majority of PLAP’s members are first- and second-year law students, and Latini said that this first arose as an issue during the course of a routine review 18 months...
Sarah M.G. Otner ’06 is lobbying Harvard administrators to allow the University to become the fifth Ivy League school to allow its first and second-year students who have a 3.4 GPA for at least one term to join the Washington, D.C.-based National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS), an honors society...
Otner wants the College to start a chapter of NSCS, which was founded in 1994 and recognizes “outstanding academic achievement among first- and second-year college students...