Sean Ahern

Biography

Sean Ahern is a practicing legal services attorney and a BU Law Class of 2017 alumnus. Sean is currently a senior attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services and a part-time lecturer at BU Law. Sean has lectured in the LLM program since fall 2021, teaching courses in legal research & writing and courses in legal interviewing and client counseling. During the spring and summer 2023 semesters, Sean held a temporary appointment as a full-time lecturer in the Civil Litigation & Justice clinic, where he supervised JD students and co-taught a course in trial advocacy. Sean is experienced as a litigator in a range of legal aid practice areas. His experience and research interest is largely in landlord-tenant and other housing matters, but Sean has also has provided civil legal aid in employment, immigration, consumer debt, and government benefits cases.