Word: legal-aid
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...British magazine Mayfair. Today, recalling her youthful display, 23-year-old Caroline Coon says casually, "It's not the sort of image for a social worker, is it?" For Caroline is now a golden girl of another sort. As one of the organizers of a legal-aid agency called "Release," she has become a protector of youthful British drug addicts and pot users who are in trouble with...
...turn of the century as urbanization advanced. Morrow is one of his few surviving descendants in North America. In Igloolik, he began by explaining the legal system in simple terms and by introducing the other members of the court, who flew along with him. There was a court clerk and a court recorder, a crown attorney who prosecuted the cases from a few notes made by the arresting Mountie, and a legal-aid counsel who prepared a defense after similarly sketchy study...
...money was used to counsel welfare-rights organizations, to prepare research for neighborhood legal-aid centers and to initiate court action on behalf of the poor. As it happens, much of the litigation subsidized by the Federal Government has been used to bring successful suits against local, state and federal authorities for slipshod and unconstitutional handling of poverty and welfare programs...
...chamber. In New York City, 250 youthful executives are giving up much of their leisure time to help black and Puerto Rican entrepreneurs open businesses in the slums. In California, James Lorenz, a bright young lawyer, has forsworn a more profitable law practice in order to establish a statewide legal-aid service for Mexican-American farm workers...
...impoverishment and misery of the rural poor is 'shocking')." Winding up his proposal, Lorenz described in detail how his already in corporated California Rural Legal Assistance agency would tackle the problem, right down to the precise location of its farm-town offices. Many attorney friends of the poor had opened store-front law offices in city slums; what Lorenz proposed was the country's first statewide rural legal-aid bureau. Impressed, Shriver investigated and pondered for two months, then agreed to provide funds for a $1,276,000 first-year budget...