Word: ferren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal payroll to sue state and local governments. The Justice Department has initiated scores of such suits in civil rights matters. The OEO statute does not specifically mention this power, but poverty lawyers have assumed it-and could hardly succeed without it. "The problems of the poor," explains John Ferren, a teacher at Harvard Law School, "are mainly with Government agencies." The American Bar Association has also attacked the Murphy amendment as "oppressive interference with the freedom of the lawyer and the citizen...
...Ferren attributes CLAO's ability to spend so much time on law reform to the fact that the office has over 100 Harvard law students assisting it. Nationally, concern with law reform may mean that legal aid offices will have to begin turning away individuals seeking counsel...
This community planning effort is an example of an attempt to improve a situation through city-wide discussion rather than through litigation. Dr. Sachs and his department are to be congratulated for bringing this problem to the community's attention. John M. Ferren Director, Community Legal Assistance Office
Sometime within the next 18 months, CLAO will have to decide which policy to follow. The normal limit for OEO research and demonstration grants is two years, or until October 1968 for CLAO. After this date, the program will have to seek financing elsewhere, probably from private foundations. Ferren feels that the available funds will probably not be enough to support anticipated case loads from both approaches...
Along side the informal talks, CLAO hopes to develop a program of legal education for the poor, to inform them of the nature of legal problems, and of their rights in court. Three pilot programs early last fall were only sparsely attended, but Ferren feels that the subsequent successes of CLAO will aid a series of programs for the spring...