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Encouraging Race-Based Advocacy In Legal Services Practice, Jonel Newman May 2002

Encouraging Race-Based Advocacy In Legal Services Practice, Jonel Newman

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Every legal services program has a waiting room, some newly furnished, others with old sofas and tattered chairs. The families, children, and elderly sitting in these waiting rooms consistently are disproportionately racial and ethnic minorities. Despite this constant reminder that those seeking legal assistance for their perceived wrongs are disproportionately racial and ethnic minorities, legal services programs are bringing fewer and fewer affirmative challenges that incorporate race-based antidiscrimination claims.
In this article we explore possible reasons for this lack of affirmative race- and national-origin-based discrimination claims and suggest some ideas for preserving or restarting this type of advocacy, ideas that …


"We're All Consultants Now": How Change In Client Organizational Strategies Influences Change In The Organization Of Corporate Legal Services, Robert Eli Rosen Jan 2002

"We're All Consultants Now": How Change In Client Organizational Strategies Influences Change In The Organization Of Corporate Legal Services, Robert Eli Rosen

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What's Special About Meditation? Contemplative Practice For American Lawyers, William S. Blatt Jan 2002

What's Special About Meditation? Contemplative Practice For American Lawyers, William S. Blatt

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