Month: January 2017

Credit: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer Harvard Law School graduate Joey Michalakes teaches a Spanish course for HLS students who need legal Spanish concepts and terminology to deal with their clients, most of whom speak only Spanish. An asylum applicant from El Salvador who was extorted by gangs back home is reluctant to share those stories in court for fear of retaliation against relatives who stayed behind. A divorce client who has suffered physical and emotional abuse needs to be informed about filing restraining orders, child support, and alimony. A wage-and-hour plaintiff is afraid of being questioned by a judge about his immigration status because he could be deported. Those are actual cases that Harvard Law School students practiced in a role-playing exercise in a ...

Credit: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer Harvard Law School graduate Joey Michalakes teaches a Spanish course for HLS students who need legal Spanish concepts and terminology to deal with their clients, most of whom speak only Spanish. An asylum applicant from El Salvador who was extorted by gangs back home is reluctant to share those stories in court for fear of retaliation against relatives who stayed behind. A divorce client who has suffered physical and emotional abuse needs to be informed about filing restraining orders, child support, and alimony. A wage-and-hour plaintiff is afraid of being questioned by a judge about his immigration status because he could be deported. Those are actual cases that Harvard Law School students practiced in a role-playing exercise in a ...