Professor of the Practice
Director of Externships
410.837.5823
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 415
Administrative Assistant: Jaquetta Oram, 410-837-6798
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 433
Education
J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan School of Law, 2002
B.A. with High Distinction, University of Michigan, 1999
Areas of Expertise
Externships and Experiential Learning
Professional Identity Formation
Gender-Based Violence
Housing Law
Lall joined the University of Baltimore as a professor of the practice and director of externships in 2019. Under her leadership, UBalt Law has built one of the largest paid legal externship programs in the United States, with a large majority of UBalt Law students receiving compensation in conjunction with their externship work. A profile on the public interest impact of the UBalt Law externship program appeared in Baltimore Law magazine in 2023.
Lall is an advocate for creating paid pathways for law students interested in public service careers and addressing issues of inequity in legal education. Her empirical research on the impact of pay on law students’ externship experiences was selected by the Clinical Section of the Association of American Law Schools for its Bellow Scholars Program. She also helps oversee UBalt Law’s new bar-stipend program, which awards need-based funding to students to eliminate their need to work while studying for the bar exam.
Lall is a vice president for the Clinical Legal Education Association, where she serves on the Membership, Externship and Faculty Equity and Inclusion committees. She was awarded the School of Law's James May Faculty Award in 2022, and the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women Founder’s Award in 2018.
Prior to joining the faculty, Lall was a supervisory attorney in the Housing Practice Group of Legal Aid Chicago and a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught courses on gender-based violence and the law. As a staff attorney at Life Span, she launched a legal program to represent survivors of sexual assault and litigated the first appellate court case under Illinois’s sexual assault protective-order statute. Lall also has taught as a clinical fellow at Northeastern University School of Law and Harvard Law School.
Recent Articles and Presentations:
Neha Lall, Biden's administration has abandoned his promise to pay interns fairly , The Hill, May 30, 2024.
Neha Lall, 2023 CLEA Survey Confirms National Trend Towards Allowing Paid Externships, 32 CLEA Newsletter 2 (Spring 2024).
Kate Devlin Joyce, Neha Lall, & June Tai, CLEA Externship Committee Report: 2023 Survey of Law Schools on Student Compensation in For-Credit Externships , CLEA (Apr. 18, 2023).
The Shifting Tide of Paid Externships, at AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, St. Louis (May 5, 2024).
Bellow Scholars Program Report on Projects, at AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, St. Louis (May 5, 2024).
Pillars or Walls? Reimagining Externships to Foster Student-Centeredness and Empowerment, at AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education (May 3, 2024).
Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession: Professional Identity in the Legal Academy, at AALS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (Jan. 4, 2024)
Working for Pay or Paying to Work?, at Bellow Scholars Workshop, CUNY Law School, New York (Oct. 13, 2023).
Creating Meaning and Connection with Law Students in the Evolving Workplace, at 2024 Partners for Justice Conference, Baltimore (May 22, 2024).
Linguistic Bias in the Justice System, at 2024 Partners for Justice Conference, Baltimore (May 22, 2024).
Bellow Scholars Program Report on Projects, at AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, San Francisco (April 30, 2023).
Show Me the Money, at AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, San Francisco (April 30, 2023).
12Twenty: Building a Collaborative, Data-Driven, and Paperless Externship Program, at Externships 11 Conference, Malibu, CA (Oct. 7, 2022).
One Good Teaching Idea Deserves Another, at Externships 11 Conference, Malibu, CA (Oct. 7, 2022).