Word: newman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLAO still comes under attack from another local group-the private lawyers. The reactions of the local bravery, but some lawyers "resent us cause they think we take business away from them." Newman says. In addition. Newman said, the law students appear as a threat because they are not members of the bar, yet they often do a better job than the established lawyers...
Director Lanckton answers these clergies by pointing out that CLAO, with its income limits for clients, only takes charity cases who would be unable to pay a lawyer's fee anyway. Newman says that CLAO thus "salves the conscience of a lot of private attorneys." CLAO refers cases which are ineligible under its financial guidelines to private lawyers. Newman also points out that in getting people to "think in terms of legal problems." CLAO is bound to generate business for the local...
...that these clients take their cases to Cambridge Legal Services (CLS), but CLAO will still represent them if the lawyers feel they can do a fair job. "We don't feel we're Harvard axmen and that we owe anything to Harvard, even though our salaries come from Harvard," Newman said...
...staff attorney Newman who speaks of the need to handle individual cases. "You just need the day to day hawking and policing to do it," he says...
...Newman admits that in a sense his position is conservative, not radical, and that the process is slow. But he says, "You have to have some kind of underlying faith in the legal system to want to change...