Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also seized were Nadia Mantovani, 26, a friend of imprisoned Red Brigades Founder Renato Curcio, and Lauro Azzolini, 35, who had been sought in connection with the murder of the president of the Turin bar association last year. There were unconfirmed rumors that Mario Moretti, 36, the top suspect in the Moro assassination, was also in police custody. To speed proceedings, all nine will stand summary trial within two weeks on charges of possessing arms and explosives-a protective measure to ensure that the defendants are not released while authorities ponder more serious charges against them...
What has aroused these and other members of the bar association is a small retail emporium known as The Law Store, which has been open for business since the spring in Los Angeles' Sherman Oaks, next to Mogo's Mongolian Barbecue and a subpoena's throw from Super Cow's Soft Frozen Yogurt. The Law Store customers pay $9.95 to pick up a store telephone and consult with one of eight part-time attorneys in the West Los Angeles offices of Group Legal Services, Inc., owner of the store. For an additional $10, attorneys will write...
...What people need," says one of The Law Store's founders, Attorney Stuart Baron, 40, "is accessibility, an attorney to talk to, the ability to pick up the phone and call somebody." Indeed, according to a recent American Bar Foundation study, 36% of Americans have never used an attorney. In 1973, with that untapped market in mind, Baron and his partner, Attorney Blair Melvin, 44, founded Group Legal Services. Today the firm offers round-the-clock legal consultations by phone to 20,000 California families for annual fees ranging from $35 to $60. For Baron and Melvin...
...good. Yet many lawyers are concerned that the dignity of their profession, as well as the quality of legal services generally, will suffer if fast-food techniques are applied to the law. As Goodman, a trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar, notes: "In a fast-food operation, every hamburger is alike. But in law, every case is not. When you walk in and order a hamburger, they don't tell you, 'Try yogurt, it's healthier.' They just serve you the hamburger that everybody else gets." Several local attorneys simply fear The Law Store...
...Store also has its defenders within the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Ex-President Jack Quinn sees the idea as likely to grow all over the country. "It's inevitable, absolutely inevitable." Notes another bar official: "The law profession has too long tried to hide behind a veil of mystique that obviously has done it no good in the eyes of the public. That mystique is a lot of crap, and it's time we set it aside...