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...since it involves work in actual trial situations. The law requires that students be supervised by a member of the Bar who is employed by a recognized legal aid society or Public Defender. For HVD, this usually means a member of the MDC or the Community Legal Assistance Office (CLAO). But Rule 3:11 does not require the personal attendance in court of the supervising attorney, allowing a student to appear alone at the trial or probable cause hearing...
Meanwhile, CLAO will undoubtedly be asked to represent Cambridge residents against Harvard. As the cases become more vital to Harvard's interests, CLAO will have to define its relation to Harvard more carefully...
...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...
Even without either of these changes the CLAO staff may find itself going increasingly in one of these directions. Lanckton observed that "the students are much more savvy now than they were three years ago," which he then defined as a greater sensitivity to law reform issues...
...emerge. While the students seem to enjoy the contact with individual clients, they talk of the need to solve legal problems on a larger scale instead of spending time on individual cases. "As far as the law school is concerned a lot of students are much more radical than CLAO," Cohen said. "They think that helping people day by day is really placating...