Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School created the Bureau to provide legal assistance to the poor and disadvantaged. Since that time the Bureau staff has grown from fewer than 25 people to more than 60 second- and third-year law students...
...Bureau prepares to celebrate its diamond jubilee this weekend, President Steve Sulentic says the Bureau closely resemebles a full-fledged legal practice. The all-volunteer staff provides free legal service to the poor throughout the Boston area. Their jurisdiction includes matters ranging from divorces to harassment charges, handling 383 cases last year...
...provide legal services in several different areas to people who cannot otherwise afford lawyers," says Sulentic, a second-year law student. "We cover pretty much the whole area, although for divorce cases, for instance, we're restricted to Middlesex County...
...cases the Bureau handles, the students working on the Rindge case will be working with one of six supervisors who serve at the Bureau. The supervisors are private attorneys who work with the students and give them legal advice...
Massachusetts law allows qualified students to offer free legal services to the poor, but according to third-year student Kenneth H. Zimmerman, a Bureau staffer, the students need supervisors because "realistically we don't know enough about how to go to court...