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...health benefits attached. But the public-interest groups still have to finance the infrastructure required for an extra person on staff. Many nonprofits have seen their own revenues fall in recent months and undertaken layoffs themselves. Just finding the money for another computer can be hard, says Esther Lardent, president of the Washington-based nonprofit Pro Bono Institute, never mind the cost of training and supervising of a brand-new lawyer. "Morale and office tensions also have to be considered," she adds. "At $75,000, these young people might be getting paid more than the most experienced attorney on staff...
...broken down; either way, these attorneys rarely have experience with the intricacies of habeas law -- perhaps the most complex part of criminal procedure. Where once the Supreme Court protected defendants from dumb or lazy lawyers, now defendants pay the price for their attorneys' mistakes. "It means," says Esther Lardent, director of the American Bar Association's Post-Conviction Death Penalty Representation Project, "the worse someone's trial lawyer is, the less likely they are to get review...
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