Duration: One Semester Clinic (Fall 2010 only)
Credits: 8 credits (letter grade)

Student attorneys will represent clients in housing related matters, including eviction defense, discrimination, public and subsidized housing, and consumer protection matters related to housing.  Students will have significant live client contact, and will interview and counsel clients, prepare pleadings, discovery, and memoranda, prepare and argue motions, and conduct negotiations, administrative hearings and trials.  Students handle administrative matters before various housing authorities, housing discrimination matters before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and housing cases in Boston Housing Court and Chelsea District Court.  Students may also have the opportunity to participate in giving presentations regarding tenants’ rights to local community groups, and to work on behalf of tenants in foreclosed properties.  Preference may be given to students who have relevant foreign language skills or who have taken or will enroll in trial advocacy as of the fall 2010.  Students must be available for Thursday morning court appearances on housing cases.

            Professor Berman will be on sabbatical in the spring of 2011, thus the Housing Clinic is an 8 credit, one semester clinic offered during the fall 2010 semester, requiring a 24 hour per week commitment.

Questions: Contact Professor William Berman at wberman@suffolk.edu