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These mid-career lawyers often find that although corporate firms do provide indigent clients with legal aid, many firms' policies make it difficult for attorneys to perform even these volunteer services.
In recent years, Harvard has pioneered many programs which offer affordable legal aid to indigent clients and give students practical experience in the courtroom. The school's Low Income Protection Plan, which guarantees financial support to graduates entering low-paying jobs, has been mimicked at many other leading institutions.
Foley, Hoag and Eliot works with a variety of clients. It helps Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups challenge state abortion consent laws. It also handles civil rights cases, in which the clients need not be indigent.
Under former Dean James Vorenberg '49, Harvard was a pioneer in clinical studies, which gives students courtroom experience representing indigent clients. But Clark says he will expand the programs to underscore their scholastic component.
THIS is not to suggest that the council's more directly student-oriented service functions are not valuable. Many worthy but indigent student organizations have benefited from the council's grant system. The council also funds social functions, the majority of which succeed reasonably well.