The matchmaker; a San Francisco labor attorney helps people become pet owners
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San Francisco labor relations attorney Tracey Lessen Gersten began volunteering at the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals when she was laid off in 1991. Now, despite 60-hour weeks at Corbett & Kane, she continue to volunteer on Saturdays, helping match people with pets. She finds the communications skills necessary for her labor relations work carry over into her volunteer work. While she has done pro bono work in the past, Gersten finds non-legal volunteering to be more rewarding.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1992
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Loaves and fishes; a judge brings Atlanta's leftovers to the hungry
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Georgia Court of Appeals judge Dorothy Beasley not only tries to help people from the bench but by distributing food. She helped start Atlanta's Table, a food salvage program that picks up leftovers from restaurants and other donors and delivers them to soup kitchens. Beasley and the 18 others who organized Atlanta's Table had to petition legislators to change liability laws in order to make the food salvage program possible.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1992
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Citizen Kainen; a criminal defense attorney saves a cemetery
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Miami, Fl, attorney Dennis Kainen has become spokesman and guardian for the hundred-year-old City of Miami Cemetery. He states that all figures from the city's formative years are buried in the cemetery and that its denizens even include Confederate veterans. He is founder of the organization Friends of the City of Miami Cemetery.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1992
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