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Another alternative for the middle-income consumer is the cut-rate "legal clinic." One, located amidst a tangle of shops in Van Nuys, Calif., is a storefront law office run by Leonard Jacoby and Stephen Meyers, both 32-year-old lawyers. They sprinkle their office with brochures listing prices and permit customers to pay by credit card. Most important, they charge fees that families earning $8,000 to $18,000 a year can afford. At the clinic, an uncontested divorce goes for $100 instead of the $350 charged by the average law firm; a typical bankruptcy case brings $225 instead...
...years when urban ghettos were exploding and the nation's campuses were shaken by student demonstrations, government officials and members of the legal profession came to see storefront lawyers as contributors to social unrest. In 1966 the president of the Tennessee Bar Association was widely applauded at a conference of state bar leaders when he charged that the Legal Service Program "relates to the fomenting of social unrest in this country. They propose to go out and tell people how to carry out rent and consumer strikes and demonstrate against lending institutions. I do not think this is consistent with...
...effort to meet the demands of the S.L.A. In addition, said Matthews, Patty admitted that she had willingly taken part in the S.L.A.'s robbery of a San Francisco bank on April 15. And she said that she had been the one who riddled the sporting-goods storefront with automatic fire to cover the trio's escape after William Harris had been caught shoplifting...
Sensing this surge toward storefront living, some landlords have bought and remodeled storefront blocks, and are now renting to eager tenants. In one South Side area, Developer John Podmajersky has constructed a communal courtyard surrounded by arched stucco walls. Here storefront tenants cultivate vegetables, and hold an annual summer art exhibit...
...most impressive conversions has occurred on the North Side of Chicago in a decaying area near Lincoln Park. There some 50 tenants have rented and remodeled not only storefronts but the shabby brick apartments directly over them. As a result the 15-block storefront area now has a new face. The store windows are decorated with gaily patterned curtains, the sills with plants and art works, and the street has become busier and safer...