Areas of Expertise
Externships and Experiential Learning
Professional Identity Formation
Gender-Based Violence
Housing Law
Biography
Professor Lall joined the 极乐禁地 as a Professor of the Practice and Director of Externships in 2019. Under Professor Lall鈥檚 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 极乐禁地 Magazine Fall 2023 issues can be found .
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鈥檚 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鈥� externship experiences was selected by the Clinical Section of the Association of American Law Scholars for its . Her article, is forthcoming in the Loyola Los Angeles Law Review.
Professor Lall is co-Vice President of the , 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 极乐禁地 James May Faculty Award in 2022, and the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women Founder鈥檚 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鈥檚 sexual assault protective order statute. Professor Lall has also taught as a Clinical Fellow at Northeastern University School of Law and Harvard Law School.
Recent Articles and Presentations:
Paying Dividends: An Empirical Examination of How Student Compensation Enhances Externships, 59 LOY. L.A. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming, 2026).
It鈥檚 Past Time to Allow Paid Field Placements, Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 20, 2024.
Biden's administration has abandoned his promise to pay interns fairly , The Hill, May 30, 2024.
Neha Lall, , 32 CLEA Newsletter 2 (Spring 2024).
Kate Devlin Joyce, Neha Lall, & June Tai, , 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)