Chanal Neves-McCain

Biography

Chanal Neves-McCain is an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing at Suffolk University Law School, where she teaches in the Legal Practice Skills Program.

Professor McCain's scholarship focuses on access-to-justice-based legal practice and programming, professional responsibility, and the integration of generative AI into legal education and skills training. Her article, Beyond Access to Counsel: Implementing Standard 303(b)(3) through an Access to Justice Model for Meaningful Representation, is forthcoming in the Nevada Law Journal.

In 2026, she received an Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) Teaching Grant for The Legal Simulation Workshop: Context Engineering for Roleplay Bots, and presented her work at the Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, and the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab's Women + AI Summit.

Professor McCain practiced as a government lawyer and served as an Assistant Attorney General, specializing in constitutional and administrative law, data privacy and security law, and civil rights law.

Professor McCain also served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Justice Amy L. Blake of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and as a Law Clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court.

Prior to joining the Suffolk Law faculty, Professor McCain taught Civil Procedure and Professional Responsibility as a Faculty Fellow at New England Law | Boston.

Professor McCain graduated cum laude from New England Law | Boston, where she received the Trustee’s Commencement Award for academic excellence and service to the institution. She received her B.A., cum laude, in Political Science and African American Studies from the University of South Carolina.

Professor McCain serves on the Board of Directors of Veterans Legal Services, which provides free civil legal aid to veterans in Massachusetts, and as Assistant Editor of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.

Articles

• Beyond Access to Counsel: Implementing Standard 303(b)(3) through an Access to Justice Model for Meaningful Representation, 27 Nev. L. J. __ (forthcoming Spring 2027).
• From Consumers to Professionals: Using Classroom Community Agreements to Foster Professional Identity Development in Gen Z Law Students, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, Newsletter (Fall/Winter 2025).
• Case Comment, Roe No. 1 v. Children’s Hospital: The Scope of Hospital Liability and Extending the Duty of Care in Cases of Child Abuse, 51 New England Law Review On Remand 52 (2017), https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/remand51&i=52.

Media

• Generating . . . Client Confidentiality Concerns in the Use of Generative AI Technology, New England Law Review Faculty Blog (May 16, 2024)

Presentations

• Legal Writing Institute – Biennial Conference — From Doctrine to Dialogue, Presenter, Lecture
• Legal Writing Institute, AI & Legal Skills Virtual Conference — "Claude, Create A Teaching Assistant Skill" (2026).
• Law and Society Association Annual Conference — Writing as Refuge, Panelist (2026).
• Suffolk University CTSE Annual Symposium — Designing More Inclusive Syllabi, Presenter (2026).
• Vanderbilt AI Law Lab, The Women+AI Summit — The Flip, co-presented with Dyane O'Leary (2026).
• Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting — Leaning into GenAI to Teach Lawyering Skills, Discussion Group: Context Engineering for Roleplay Bots (2026).
• Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting — Professional Responsibility Section, New Voices Workshop, presentation on work-in-progress (2023).

Teaching Grant

• 2026 Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) Teaching Grant — The Legal Simulation Workshop: Context Engineering for Roleplay Bots.

Bar Admittance

• Massachusetts

Education

• New England Law | Boston, J.D.
• University of South Carolina, B.A. in Political Science and African American Studies.

Awards & Honors

• Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, 2021 Martha Coakley Team Award for contributions to Promoting Cultural Humility in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment grant program
• Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, 2020-2022 Assistant Attorney General Fellow
• New England Law | Boston, 2017 Trustee Bradbury Commencement Award for Excellence in Achievement