NEHA LALL

Professor Lall joined the University of Baltimore as a Professor of the Practice and Director of Externships in 2019. Under Professor Lall’s 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 The University of Baltimore Magazine Fall 2023 issues can be found here.
Professor Lall is an advocate for creating paid pathways for law students interested in public service careers and addressing issues of inequity in legal education. She also helps oversee UBalt Law’s bar stipend program, which awards need-based funding to students to eliminate their need to work while studying for the bar exam.
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 Scholars for its Bellow Scholars Program. Her article, Paying Dividends: An Empirical Examination of How Student Compensation Enhances Externships is forthcoming in the Loyola Los Angeles Law Review.
Professor Lall is co-Vice President of the Clinical Legal Education Association, where she serves on the Membership Committee, Externship Committee, and the Faculty Equity and Inclusion Committee. Professor Lall was awarded a 2025 Emerging Leader Award by the AALS Externships Committee, the University of Baltimore James May Faculty Award in 2022, and the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women Founder’s Award in 2018.
Prior to joining the faculty, Professor 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. Professor Lall has also taught as a Clinical Fellow at Northeastern University School of Law and Harvard Law School.