Toiling in the vineyards: young leaders in public service work give meaning to 'professionalism.' (President's Page)

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Law students founded the National Assn for Public Interest Law (NAPIL) in 1986 to create more opportunities for law students and lawyers interested in this area of the law. NAPIL chapters now number 131 and 3 4 of ABA-accredited law schools have them. NAPIL also offers the Fellowships for Equal Justice to help some of the law students who would go into public interest law were it not for their large law school debts.

Practice, Behavior, Law students, Public interest law

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Lest they forget; efforts are in full swing to establish a National Equal Justice Library in D.C

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Three professional associations have cooperated to set up the National Equal Justice Library. The three are the American Assn of Law Libraries, the American Bar Assn, and the National Legal Aid and Defender Assn. The American University College of Law has donated the space for the library. Library collections will include books, photographs and an oral history program on the history of legal services to the poor.

Management, Innovations, Law libraries, National Equal Justice Library

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Celebrating Law Day through diversity

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The ABA's theme for Law Day USA 1995 on May 1 is 'E Pluribus Unum - Out of Many One,' to emphasize the diversity and variety of the American people unified under one law. It comes at a time of increased signs of exclusion based not only on different origin, but also on appearance, sexual preference, and other factors that truly help to enrich American culture and society.

Appreciation, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Multiculturalism, Law Day

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