Word: legal-aid
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...Amount her legal-aid attorney billed the city for every hour he spent in the courtroom...
Migrant-labor organizations and legal-aid groups in Florida have long waged an ongoing battle with the Fanjuls and other growers over the abysmal conditions. Greg Schell, an attorney with the Migrant Farmworkers Justice Project in Belle Glade, Fla., contends that of all the growers, the Fanjuls have treated their workers the worst. "They are in a class by themselves," he said. A lawsuit seeking back wages and benefits is expected to go to trial next spring...
...more fortunate. Poorer women will see little in The First Wives Club that they can relate to. "This idea of leaving for a new trinket is more for people who are used to living well," observes Betty Nordwind, executive director of the Harriet Duhai Family Law Center, a nonprofit legal-aid service in Los Angeles. Among her divorce clients, if the husband has a younger girlfriend, that is likely to be "reason No. 20" for the split, with violence, money troubles and addiction the more pressing concerns...
...Legal-aid lawyer Bonnyman claims that many of these wrinkles can be smoothed out with more flexibility and a better grievance system. For instance, managed-care companies could allow 5% of their patients to use nongeneric drugs if absolutely necessary. Keeping the providers from defecting may prove more difficult. Many doctors feel that the medical budget for poor Tennesseeans was balanced on their backs. Even now, money for TennCare is tight. According to a gao report comparing TennCare's reimbursement rates with the old Medicaid levels, doctors now get slightly higher fees for visits and consultations, but for some forms...
...rule that federal funds may not be used for abortions unless the mother's life is in danger; that employers are no longer obliged to pay for health-insurance benefits for abortions (unless the mother's life is threatened); that legal-aid lawyers are prohibited from providing legal assistance for nontherapeutic abortions; and that private organizations lose federal funds if they engage in abortion-related activities abroad, even when those activities are paid for by non-American sources...