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...School will set up a new $1 million endowment designed to relieve the financial burden of its graduates who choose to enter public interest law, officials said yesterday...
...stipends will serve as salary subsidies for Law School graduates who enter low-paying careers in the public sector. Law School Dean Robert C. Clark said that while the exact details of the fund had yet to be worked out, the money for the academic year 1990-'91 will likely be used to supplement alumni income for up to three years...
...School also provides the Low Income Protection Plan (LIPP) for graduates entering low-paying jobs. That program forgives or significantly reduces the debts of alumni in the public interest sector...
Coming on the heels of a month-long controversy over Clark's support for public interest law, faculty members said yesterday the new Kaufman fellowships gave an indication that the new dean's priorities lie with creating financial incentives to enter non-traditional legal careers...
Clark has drawn fire from students and faculty for his decision this summer to eliminate the school's public interest placement office in an effort to cut costs. Despite his promise to transfer the office's responsibilities to a general placement office, 1055 law students have signed a petition demanding that Clark restore the full-time public interest counselors...