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...away from the case-by-case routine is to spend time on legislative reform and on test cases. Van Lanckton, the director of CLAO, acknowledges the importance of individual service, but says that legislative reform is more significant. "Rather than simply guiding one individual through the legal maze, we try to change the system and make it more fair." Lanckton said...
...Lanckton resolves the issue simply by saying. "The knowledge that CLAO is there helps the community organize itself." Although this means that law students do not go knocking on doors. Newman feels that CLAO is still able to get the word out to the community. "We believe that it's our job to reach out." he said. "When we do perceive a problem we are eager to bring it to the attention of our clientele." available to the community to use us to achieve their own purposes. ????ton said. Newman says that the poverty lawyer must tell the community that...
...Director Lanckton answers these clergies by pointing out that CLAO, with its income limits for clients, only takes charity cases who would be unable to pay a lawyer's fee anyway. Newman says that CLAO thus "salves the conscience of a lot of private attorneys." CLAO refers cases which are ineligible under its financial guidelines to private lawyers. Newman also points out that in getting people to "think in terms of legal problems." CLAO is bound to generate business for the local...
...from its Harvard connections toward the community. It has been difficult, especially recently, for CLAO to define its relationship to Harvard. It seems symbolic that since CLAO's creation in 1966 the director's office has been located at the law school, not at the CLAO offices. This spring Lanckton plans to move his office to the main CLAO location...
Presently Wally Sherwood, a CLAO lawyer, is defending members of OBU in the hearings on the injunction obtained by Harvard in December after OBU occupied University Hall. CLAO agreed to represent OBU, Lanckton said, when its members called the night before the hearing and did not have a lawyer. Lanckton explained that CLAO is not really funded to serve Harvard students, but that it will usually represent those students who are financially eligible...