Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young woman entered the office of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. She had heard of this student organization, whose 41 members act as consultants in civil cases for people who cannot afford a lawyer...
...woman told the Legal Aid counsel that she had been married for four years and was living in a housing project in Lynn. Six months before, her husband had left her and their young son; now she wanted assistance in filing suit for divorce...
...with any new client, the first task was to determine whether the woman was financially eligible for the free services of the bureau. Eligibility is based on income, number of dependents, and pressing financial obligations. If the counsel decides that an applicant can afford professional legal advice, he suggests lawyers in the Boston area who are on the bureau's referral list...
...lawyers have a bout with two judges on the golf course, flounder on the floor of Miss Smith's darkened room, and rejoice happily in their own lack of brilliance. The dialogue is rapid and restrained--a mild spoof on the pomp and powdered wigs which characterize the British legal fraternity...
...fresh job of mapping" Cambridge has completed the preliminaries of physical expansion. Plans have been drawn for a new chemistry building, and a building to house International Legal Studies, which will be located next to Langdell Hall at the Law School...