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...them on the law. Law students, says Pitofsky, who has a cool, unruffled pedagogical style, "must learn to be precise in speech and written expression. They must understand and abide by the notion of relevance." Unlike most law professors, Pitofsky is affiliated with a law firm, serving as a counselor to the prestigious D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter...
Dena O. Rakoff, counselor in the Office of Career Service and Off-Campus Learning, said yesterday it is too early to assess the employment situation for this year's senior class...
...Ideally, the probation officer acts as a kind of counselor to the child," Feloney said. "If, over a trial period, this arrangement doesn't work out, then the probation officer refers the child to another agency--say, a half-way house...
...better alternative is to turn to one of the 170-odd nonprofit community credit counseling services. The services make the debtor sign an agreement to take on no more credit and to hand over all his charge cards. Often a counselor will scissor the cards to pieces before the debtor's eyes. The service then negotiates extended repayment of the loans and collects a fixed monthly payment from the debtor that it parcels out among the creditors...
Though federal regulation should help to end these remaining abuses, passing laws in general is not a full answer to credit problems. Credit counselors assert that much of the legislation of recent years has been ineffective because most consumers do not know their rights under the laws. That points to a broader problem. Borrowers in general are appallingly ignorant of the basic economics of credit. Says Boston Debt Counselor Mel Stiller: "People are not taught in school how to use credit and how to do family financial planning. They just never learn how to survive in modern economics...