Harvard Law School
Legal Practice and Access to Justice in Rural America
Spring 2020
Teaching a reading group to Harvard Law Students that takes a multi-faceted lens through which to consider increasing access to justice issues in rural America, identify policy, cultural, and market forces that contribute to rural legal needs and opportunities, and explore resultant potential for innovation in the legal profession.
Transactional Law Clinics
Fall 2012 - Spring 2017
Supervised students as they represented individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits under my bar license in myriad transactional law matters, including commercial leasing, entertainment law, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, and formation and maintenance of legal entities. Managed active caseload of dozens of clients at a time. Supervised clinical students as they learned transactional law and delivered services to clients. Developed and managed clinic’s relationship with the Harvard Innovation Lab. Regularly represented Harvard Law on a national level as a guest lecturer, presenter, workshop facilitator, and author on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and social enterprise.
Transactional Law Clinical Workshop
Fall 2012 - Spring 2017
Assisted with teaching semester-long clinic companion workshop course led by Professor Brian Price, Clinic Director, alongside two additional clinical instructors.
Recording Artists Project
Fall 2012 - Spring 2017
Supervised teams of Harvard Law students and Music Business students from the Berklee College of Music in semester-long representation of recording artists on a wide range of legal matters, and assisted with community engagement and hosting campus events pertaining to the music industry.
Community Enterprise Project of the Transactional Law Clinics
Spring 2013 - Spring 2017
Designed, launched, directed, and taught a semester-long, stand-alone division of the Transactional Law Clinics that combines direct client representation with project-based work in which students partner with community organizations to tackle persistent legal barriers to economic development and engage in weekly reading groups to discuss issues of community lawyering and economic development.
Winter Session Transactional Law Clinics Combined Offering
Winter 2016
Designed and co-taught a first-of-its-kind combined clinical/classroom offering in which students spent 8 hours each day representing clients and with interspersed classroom hours in which they learned the substantive areas of law and practice.
Independent Study, Faculty Supervisor
Spring 2017
Supervised one student completing an independent writing project examining potential constitutional concerns related to the provisions of state-funded alternative dispute resolution services in almost-exclusively urban (rather than rural) areas.
Winter 2017
Supervised one student completing an independent clinical project in Tanzania with the New Markets Lab, a legal and regulatory think tank and innovation lab that aims to improve systems for economic law and regulation in order to generate broad-based opportunity and entrepreneurship.
Winter 2016 - Spring 2016
Supervised two students completing a joint independent research and writing project regarding Cuban business structures and economic opportunities as impacted by the loosening of economic relations with the United States.