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Charging that the leadership of the Legal Services Corporation is not fulfilling its role in providing legal help to the poor, five prominent law school deans--including Harvard Dean James Vorenberg '49--sent a letter to President Bush urging him to quickly appoint a new board of directors...
...letter released last week, the deans wrote that the current board, who were all appointed by former President Ronald W. Reagan, "are undermining the proper functions of the Corporation. "Under the corporation's charter, Reagan's board will serve until Bush appoints...
...believe law schools have an obligation to teach students that they are personally responsible for helping achieve justice," reads the letter. "It is deeply disturbing to us that the current Corporation board is permitted to continue to send a destructive message to our students...
Bush has not offered a public response to the letter, according to the White House media relations office. And Legal Services Corporation officials said last week they did not expect the letter--signed by the deans of law schools at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Yale and the University of Chicago--to speed up the appointment process...
Wallace charged that the deans had not adequately researched the workings of the corporation before sending the letter...