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...school legal aid project, CLAO is particularly susceptible to the charge of using the community solely for its own research and educational purposes. Former director Ferren rejects this notion and says that there is no conflict between CLAO's service to the community and its education of students. CLAO was founded, Ferren said, on the concept that "only through legal service do we have a way of learning what the legal problems...
...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
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...