Dr. Audrey Patten

Biography

Audrey Patten is a Lecturer at Harvard Law School, having joined the Legal Services Center in 2015. In her role as an attorney in the Consumer Law Clinic, she represented domestic violence survivors in matters of debt collections, bankruptcy, and affirmative consumer protection cases as part of the medical-legal partnership with the Passageway Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2017, she moved to the Tax Clinic, where she became a Clinical Instructor in 2018. Audrey's practice in the tax clinic focuses on representing low-income clients in controversies before the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Tax Court, and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. She regularly litigates tax cases in the United States District and Circuit Courts. Before joining the Legal Services Center, she worked as a staff attorney in the Battered Women’s Legal Assistance Project/Family Law Unit at Merrimack Valley Legal Services in Lowell, MA. Audrey holds a Juris Doctor degree with honors from Emory University School of Law, a Master of Arts in Regional Studies – East Asia from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts with honors in International Relations from Brown University.

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