Word: clao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Student worker Cohen is one of the few against giving course credit for work at CLAO, since doing so would reduce the freedom of students working at CLAO. They would then have formal requirements to meet, and the law school faculty would have to approve any changes. "CLAO in a way was one of the first big breaks in the law school's armor the first time that an activity really got out of the law school and survived on its own with very little help." Cohen said...
...MOST difficult aspect of CLAO's connection to Harvard appears when clients ask CLAO to represent them in cases against Harvard. Ferren says that CLAO has no set policy on these cases, but that it has represented a number of cases whose interests are adverse to the university...
While most clients seem unaware of CLAO's connection to Harvard, the staff does reveal the relation to clients involved in cases against Harvard. CLAO often suggests that these clients take their cases to Cambridge Legal Services (CLS), but CLAO will still represent them if the lawyers feel they can do a fair job. "We don't feel we're Harvard axmen and that we owe anything to Harvard, even though our salaries come from Harvard," Newman said...
...CLAO lawyers have handled landlord-tenant disputes, potentially the biggest source of conflict, against the Hunneman Co., Harvard's realtor. Last summer CLAO defended the man accused of stealing the Gutenberg Bible from Widener Library...
Presently Wally Sherwood, a CLAO lawyer, is defending members of OBU in the hearings on the injunction obtained by Harvard in December after OBU occupied University Hall. CLAO agreed to represent OBU, Lanckton said, when its members called the night before the hearing and did not have a lawyer. Lanckton explained that CLAO is not really funded to serve Harvard students, but that it will usually represent those students who are financially eligible...