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Encouraging The Development Of "Low Bono" Law Practices, Luz E. Herrera
Encouraging The Development Of "Low Bono" Law Practices, Luz E. Herrera
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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A Lawyer For John Doe: Alternative Models For Representing Maryland's Middle Class, Lucy B. Bansal
A Lawyer For John Doe: Alternative Models For Representing Maryland's Middle Class, Lucy B. Bansal
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
"A Lawyer for John Doe," explores the growing disparity between the legal services available to the upper class and the poor in the state of Maryland. The article offers four models or solutions that creatively show different ways in which middle class citizens can obtain adequate and substantive legal representation for issues that specifically concern them.
Clinical Professors' Professional Responsibility: Preparing Law Students To Embrace Pro Bono, Douglas L. Colbert
Clinical Professors' Professional Responsibility: Preparing Law Students To Embrace Pro Bono, Douglas L. Colbert
Faculty Scholarship
This article begins by examining the current crisis in the U.S. legal system where approximately three out of four low- and middle-income litigants are denied access to counsel's representation when faced with the loss of essential rights - -a home, child custody, liberty and deportation - - and where most lawyers decline to fulfill their ethical responsibility of pro bono service to those who cannot afford private counsel. The article traces the evolving ethical standards of a lawyer's professional responsibility that today views every attorney as a public citizen having a special responsibility to the quality of justice.
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