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Unlike the Legal Aid Society and Voluntary Defenders--the traditional legal aid bureaus of the school--CLAO seeks to minimize its open ties with Harvard in favor of active participation in the neighborhood. Its cramped offices are located in a low-income neighborhood in East Cambridge, not in what the local poor regard as the "other Cambridge" around Harvard...
...third avenue of "institutional reform" consists of aiding local community action groups to unravel the complexities of the law. During the past six months, CLAO has advised a group of Boston poor organizing an egg-buying co-operative, a neighborhood rehabilitation program, and a proposed Cambridge credit union...
...attract clients, CLAO papered neighborhood churches, grocery stores, and pool halls with posters informing residents of its legal services. And clients began to come in, either on their own initiative, or on the advice of social agencies. As the caseload grew from an October average of 16 per week to 25 per week in February, word of mouth became CLAO's best advertisement. "We've been getting a lot of clients," Garrity says, "who just say they've heard somewhere that those fellows at 245 Broadway are a pretty good bunch of lawyers...
Residents of East Cambridge will make the final decision, since CLAO exists to serve their desires for legal aid. If they want a "service policy," CLAO will accept as many cases as possible according to some arbitrary selection process. If the neighborhood opts for an "institutional reform" policy, the office will concentrate on promising test cases and advice to community action groups...
Life at the institute revolves around a balanced union of work, study and prayer. Members of the community are involved in trying to improve the Negro slum neighborhood. Backed by a $170,000 federal grant, the institute operates a nursery school for the benefit of both its members and neighborhood families. It has also created a club for neighborhood kids called the Jets and offers legal aid to area residents...