By Meghan E. Hall I was nervous, tempted and skeptical about signing up for the 2L Day-3L Evening Mock Trial Competition during my second year at Suffolk Law School. I thought, “I have no experience conducting an opening statement or trial practice for that matter; this could be anything but fun.” I was wrong. The trial [...]
By Rachel N. Shute In my second year of law school, I was a staff member on Law Review and wrote a Note on parents with disabilities facing the termination of their parental rights in Massachusetts. Law Review staff members spend much of our time working on our Note and cite checking soon-to-be-published pieces. A [...]
By Monica D. Mohan This summer, I had the opportunity to work as a Summer Associate in the Boston office of Hinckley Allen. The summer program provided me with invaluable lessons I’ve taken back to the classroom during my final year of law school, and beyond. The Hinckley Allen Summer Program taught me to operate [...]
By Daniela Manrique I represented my first client in the Family Law Advocacy Clinic in a contempt action against her ex-husband for failure to pay child support. I appeared in Probate and Family Court on behalf of Cheryl—not her real name—asking the judge to hold her ex-husband in civil contempt and direct him to begin [...]
By Gerald Glover III I was a month into my 3L year when I found myself in the midst of a housing discrimination claim at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. My clients sought legal help because they were evicted after the family’s oldest daughter had a child. In Massachusetts, landlords are required to remove all [...]
By Yolanda Marcela Mendoza During my third year of law school, I was a part of a team of clinic students that successfully persuaded three federal judges in the First Circuit Court of Appeals to side with us and release a 41-year-old Jamaican citizen who was about to be deported. This decision overturned the highest [...]
By Caroline A. Clair My advice for incoming 1Ls is to take the time to get to know your professors. Build rapport with them. Earn their respect. Set yourself apart as a professional. Suffolk law professors are a wealth of knowledge and experience, and they highly respect students who seek their professional advice outside of [...]
By Nicholas M. Hasenfus The first time I met my 16-year-old client, he was in lock-up and crying. I was assigned the case in the Juvenile Defenders Clinic, which I joined my third year at Suffolk Law School. On my first duty day at the Boston Juvenile Court, I was very unsure what to expect. [...]
By Debbie Aderinto I was born in Ibadan, Nigeria and lived there until I was 11 years old. I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer sometime around my fourth birthday. I first discovered what a lawyer did through my grandmother who owned several residential and commercial properties in our home state. I would [...]
By Priscilla Guerrero A carton of eggs. That was my thank you gift and payment from my first client in South Africa: the daughter of a chicken breeder. Her 4-year-old son Tim was being denied citizenship in South Africa despite being born there. I spent the summer after my second year in law school as [...]
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