Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...primary reason is often not that they care so much about legal services," says Lee D. Goldstein, a supervising attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, which is one of the student-run clinical programs. "It's a way to train young lawyers in litigation...
...many, those kind of practical disincentives work against the commitment to public service. High loan payments and a lack of experience in common pro bono fields discourage young attorneys from taking the extra effort to provide the poor with legal...
Although most agree that the firms encouraging volunteer legal work do so for philanthropic reasons, skeptics say that most of those firms simply want to supply themselves with well-trained litigators at little risk...
Together, those factors mean the need for legal services is continuing to outdistance the supply...