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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawsuit that touched off one of Boston's most controversial political battles in the last 20 years originated as a pro bono case accepted by a corporate law firm...
Attorneys at Foley, Hoag and Eliot, a large Boston firm, took on the landmark school desegregation case that has dominated the Boston political agenda since 1974. And they took it free of charge, says one of the firm's lawyers, because they were concerned about the "impact on the community where that discrimination took place...
...primary reason is often not that they care so much about legal services," says Lee D. Goldstein, a supervising attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, which is one of the student-run clinical programs. "It's a way to train young lawyers in litigation...
...one time, clinical programs were influencing people, and had a substantial impact," says Robert L. Hill, Aetna Life and Casualty's assistant vice president for law and public affairs. "But now people are on the `fast track' and say, `too much work to do, have to get ahead, have to pay back student loans.' So they're not doing as much pro bono as they used...
...staff used the information Zia-Zarifi learned about the way the Daily was put together to create an accurate imitation, Rubins said. The reproductions were convincing enough to pass by at least one Yale Daily staffer undetected, Geier said...