Word: caseloads
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...aims at getting the "injured," non-working members of the society into the mainstream and earning. Studies show consistently that people neither enjoy being on the welfare rolls nor stay there indefinitely. And those who do not work, such as the aged and disabled (over half the caseload in Cambridge), and mothers with small children, generally cannot work...
...CLAO staff has thus far been able to avoid committing itself to any set proportion of individual cases and law reform work, due to CLAO's generous financial and personnel resources. However, if the CLAO caseload continues to grow or the resources are cut back, the staff may have to commit itself increasingly to one of the two alternatives...
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...