Legal Aid Hits Prime Time
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Prime Time for Legal Services
CBS’ “The Guardian,” television’s highest-rated new drama this season, is a gritty new lawyer series based on the everyday work of children’s advocates in Pittsburgh. The surprising secret to the show’s success? Forgoing Hollywood’s serial happy endings for knotty resolutions true to real life. ( 4.2mb)
Touch-Screen Justice
With no end in sight to the resource crisis preventing millions of Americans from having their rightful day in court, Legal Aid Society of Orange County turns to a ground-breaking experiment with computer self-help terminals that just may revolutionize access to the civil justice system. ( 6mb)
Rescued from the Debris
The floor began to shake, and the immigrant housekeeper in Manhattan’s Millennium hotel ran to the elevators where she found people in hysterics. The first plane had struck the World Trade Center. For Yakara Ponce, the hell of September 11 was followed by a second devastating blow: a pink slip. So like thousands of other indirect victims of the terrorist attacks, she looked to her local legal services program for help—and found it. ( 758k)
The People’s Lawyer Goes to Washington
Decades before U.S. Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) was one of America’s most influential Hispanic lawmakers, he was battling slumlords as a staff attorney with Legal Services of Greater Miami. He discusses the job that launched his political star in this issue’s EQUAL JUSTICE Q&A. ( 399k)
Pleading for Forgiveness
Some of America’s brightest law students are abandoning their passion for public interest law because sky-high debt and dirt-low salaries don’t add up. Convincing lawmakers and law schools to change the rules on loan forgiveness is Job One for the American Bar Association in 2002. ( 196k)
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