From 1970-1973, Ms. Charn was a legal aid lawyer. In 1973, Ms. Charn was appointed Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs at Harvard Law School and worked with Professor Gary Bellow to develop Harvard's clinical program. In 1975, she was appointed Lecturer in Law and continues to teach "The Lawyering Process", an introduction to professional ethics and civil practice; "Delivery of Legal Services" a course that explores approaches to making legal services more widely available in the US; and, with Professor Duncan Kennedy, "Housing Law and Policy". In 1979, Ms. Charn and Professor Bellow established a Harvard Law School "teaching law office" similar to the teaching hospital in medicine. The Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center continues to develop both its service and clinical education programs and to seek improved approaches to improving both the quality and availability of services. In addition to directing the Hale and Dorr Center, Ms. Charn directs the Bellow-Sacks Access to Civil Legal Services Project which will produce a series of white papers aimed at expanding the access of low and moderate income people to civil legal services.

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