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Student response to CLAO has amazed even its director, John M. Ferren '59. He had expected 50 or 60 students to appear at an introductory meeting last fall--more than 200 came. Today 75 of these second-and third year students work from five to ten hours a week under the supervision of licensed staff attorney Paul Garrity...
...infinitesimal percentage of the CLAO case load--could confront student assistants with ethical problems far removed from the dry case studies of the law school. "Suppose a client comes in, says, 'here's the knife,' and asks a student to defend him. What does the student do?" Ferren asks...
This plan has worked well in several cases, but, according to Ferren, it appears that the personal qualities of a given lawyer, not necessarily his organizational skills, determine the outcome. CLAO continues to get references from most local social and welfare agencies...
...cozy co-existence between CLAO and the powers-that-be may be shattered as the office moves from "service" cases toward improving the state of the poor in the face of the law. Ferren says they will try to "aim broadsides against institutional adversaries of the poor,"--chiefly by using the weapon of test cases. Eligibility standards of local welfare boards are one primary target of the "institutional reform" policy...
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...