How about her local public defender office? - There's nothing more
rewarding than defending the rights of the indigent, mentally ill &
juveniles. The Public Defender is well known as an excellent place for
young attorneys to rec. top rate trial experience & paralegals enjoy equal
opportunities for valuable experience that would take *years to obtain at a
commercial for-profit firm. It's an excellent education as well, if she is
concerned about social issues, in understanding the enormous diff. between
high profile crim. commercial defense attys & the role of the public
defender in protecting the indigent who do not have the means for even the
simplest legal transactions that most of us take for granted - Government
statistics show that over 20% of those incarcerated are absolutely
*innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted - their only "crime"
was being poor & not having the ability to afford legal counsel.
Her good skills would be making a huge social impact.
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Karen Mahnk, Research Librarian karenpdo@gate.net
State of Florida Public Defender,
11th Judicial Circuit
1320 NW 14th Street, Suite 330
Miami, Fl.,33125
(305)545-1889 FAX (305)545-1694
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At 08:46 PM 6/23/1999 -0400, Hill, Byron C. wrote:
>
> Libbers
> A friend in academia has a daughter recently graduated from college
>who is considering working for a year or so as a paralegal with a "socially
>conscious" law firm that specializes in such areas as environmental law
>(presumably not defending polluters), civil rights (presumably in support of
>same), or other similarly admirable work. She is interested in Boston, New
>York, or Providence. Anyone have any suggestions on how one might identify
>law firms that meet her criteria?
>
> Byron Hill
> Bowditch & Dewey
> Worcester, MA
>
>
>
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