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Major Affordable Housing Victory Achieved in Boston

September 2, 2017
A coalition including GBLS, City Life/Vida Urbana, pro bono law firms Goulston & Storrs, Jones Day, and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, the Department of Neighborhood Development, CEDAC, and the Boston Public Health Commission not only saved 59 families from being displaced from their homes, but…

Why Boston Students Created a 'Know Your Rights' App

June 3, 2015
Kudos to Elizabeth McIntyre for her work with these students. Thanks also to WilmerHale and Staples for sponsoring her Equal Justice Works fellowship at GBLS. There are links at the end of this article to several other WBUR features on school discipline and the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Click here…

Remarks of 2017 BBA John G. Brooks Awardee, GBLS Attorney Anne Mackin

BBA Remarks – May 15, 2017 Good Evening, President Starkey, members of the BBA, members of the Judiciary, Rep. Moulton, my GBLS and legal services colleagues, and all who have come this evening to celebrate Law Day. Thank you, President Starkey, and the BBA for presenting me with the John G…