Reaching out to rural communities; through grants and fellowships, pro bono efforts are moving beyond urban areas to help those clients in need of legal services
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Pro bono work targetting rural clients in need of legal help is discussed. An example is the ABA's Rural Pro Bono Project, which helps to build models for rural delivery and study how technology can be used to improve services for rural people. The ABA also makes small grants through this program to explore such work.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2001
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Report: INS snafus make clients hard to find; errors said to imperial access to lawyers
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Deficient Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as a factor imperiling the legal rights of immigrants seeking asylum is discussed. The Catholic Legal Immigration Network reports receipt of incomplete information in 54% of cases.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2001
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The pro bono pardon; how Arnold & Porter cleared a man's name a century later
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Arnold and Porter, a leader in pro bono work, engineered the posthumous pardon of 19th century African American soldier Henry O. Flipper. Despite his dishonorable discharge for hiding his inability to account for the disappearance of almost $1500 while he was commissary officer at a Texas base, Flipper went on to a career as a mining engineer and surveyor. Flipper's family convinced an Army review board of the unfounded nature of the charges and of their racial motivation. Flipper's pardon was the first posthumous pardon ever signed.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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