Word: caseload
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Criminal cases involving indigents make up only ten per cent of CLAO's caseload. Lankton said. The rest of CLAO's work-which includes mostly civil cases-is wholly funded by a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity. The CLAO staff includes five lawyers and 100 volunteer law students...
Traditionally, cases involving domestic matters, such as divorce, adoption, and child support, have formed the greatest part of legal aid work. Such cases make up around 40 per cent of CLAO's caseload, it is particularly cases such as these which may be phased out nationally as greater emphasis is given to law reform cases...
...alone came to 107. The ambitious 51-year-old trustbuster has been setting a 12-hour-a-day pace in the office, and is not likely to slacken. He plans to increase his staff, which now includes 280 lawyers and 320 other workers, to take on a still larger caseload. He disclaims any interest in defending "established company managements from takeovers." Still, if he gets his way in court, future takeovers in the form of conglomerate mergers are going to be rare indeed...
...attract clients, CLAO papered neighborhood churches, grocery stores, and pool halls with posters informing residents of its legal services. And clients began to come in, either on their own initiative, or on the advice of social agencies. As the caseload grew from an October average of 16 per week to 25 per week in February, word of mouth became CLAO's best advertisement. "We've been getting a lot of clients," Garrity says, "who just say they've heard somewhere that those fellows at 245 Broadway are a pretty good bunch of lawyers...
Suspect Solution. Even if Southerner Lyndon Johnson solves the formidable problem of getting Democratic Southern Senators to approve two Southerners of the type the Fifth deserves, the trouble is that nine judges cannot handle the court's runaway caseload. There are two alternatives: add judges or cut the load. Because some experts insist that appellate courts should have no more than nine judges, Congress will shortly be asked to reduce the Fifth's jurisdiction by creating a new seven-judge circuit court to handle Texas, Louisiana and the Canal Zone...