News Articles

2005

"Young lawyers provide idealism- consortium provides expertise," The Sacramento Bee, December 29, 2005.

"Online Law Service to Encourage Lower Legal Fees," National Public Radio, April 19, 2005.

"Strength in Numbers," Small Firm Business, Spring 2005.

"Lawyers Offer Legal Access Through Consortium Project," by Lovely Dhillon, February 24, 2005, The New Lawyer.

2004

"Tennessee's first Equal Justice Works Fellow to work with area youth," University of Tennessee News & Events, November 2004.

"Doing Business," by Erik Cummins, May 2004, California Lawyer Magazine.

2003

"The Ulitimate Challenge: From School to Startup," by Marie Beaudette, September 15, 2003, Legal Times.

"Help for Going Solo," by Rebecca Luczycki, March 2003, Vol. 12, No.6, The National Jurist.

"Help for 'Store Front' Lawyers: CUNY's Community Legal Resource Network is Thriving-and Growing.  Now, Other Law Schools are Joining to Support Solo and Small-Firm Practitioners," by Margaret Graham Tebo, January 10, 2003, ABA Journal, Urban Law Practice.

2002

"Law Schools Urge Graduates to Start Small and Think Local," by Greg Winter, New York Times, December 16, 2002.

"Law Schools and 'Low Bono': Consortium helps solo practitioners, small-firm alumni offers affordable help to clients in crisis," by Cynthia L. Cooper, LSC Equal Justice Magazine, Fall 2002, Vol. 1, No. 3

"Good Guy's Reward: Working-Class People's Lawyer Fred Rooney Will Get Prestigious Award Tonight," by Ron Devlin, The Morning Call, November 1, 2002 

"Justice for All: Law Schools can do a Great Deal to Support Grads' Legal Services Initiatives," by Nat Hentoff, Legal Times, September 18, 2002.

"Clinic Builds Practitioner Network: Law School Consortium Project Provides Support," University of New Mexico School of Law LAW Newsletter, Autumn 2002.

The Law School Consortium Project: Law Schools Supporting Graduates to Increase Access to Justice for Low and Moderate-Income Individuals and Communities, by Deborah Howard, Fordham Urban Law Journal, February 2002, Vol. XXIX, No. 3

"Putting a Premium on Meditation: Law School's Program Offers Students a Labyrinth, Yoga," by Stephanie Francis Cahill, ABA Journal E-Report, February 15, 2002.

"Lawyer Network Helps Small Firms While Providing Affordable Legal Services," by Natalie White, Lawyers Weekly USA, February 4, 2002.

2001

"Real Estate 'Flipping' Case Results In $148K Award, by Natalie White, Lawyers Weekly USA, December 10, 2001.

"Casting a Lifeline to Young Solos," by Thomas Adcock, New York Law Journal, October 19, 2001.

"The Double Bottom Line," by Seth Oltman, L Magazine, An American Lawyer Media Publication, January 2001.

2000

CUNY Matters, Fall 2000, By Dorothy Zellner

"4th Circuit Sides with HUD," by Alisa Bralove, Daily Record, Baltimore County Edition, July 14, 2000.  (Maryland CLRN Director and two students from the Law School's clinical program filed an amicus curiae brief on HUD's behalf.)

"Court Upholds Court Ban on Lenders: At Issue Are Firms with High Default Rate on FHA-Insured Mortgages," by John B. O'Donnell, Baltimore Sun, July 14, 2000.  (Maryland CLRN Director and two students from the Law School's clinical program filed an amicus curiae brief on HUD's behalf.)  

"Cuny Legal Services Plan Catches On," by Victoria Rivkin, New York Law Journal, June 28, 2000.

"The Longitudinal Law School," by Deborah Howard, National Association for Law Placement (NALP) Bulletin, May 2000, Vol. 13, No. 5.

"Law Schools and Community Lawyers," by Deborah Howard, ABA Division for Legal Services Dialogue, Spring 2000, Vol. 4, No. 2.

"Lawyer Finds the Poor Pay Their Bills," by Victoria Rivkin, New York Law Journal, April 24, 2000.

1999

"Civil Justice, Inc. Recruiting Young Lawyers," Baltimore Lawyer, Winter, 1999.

"Community Legal Resources Network," Law Lines, Vol. 23, No.3, May/June, 1999.

"Community Legal Resources Network to Address Underserved Communities," by Greta Boeringer, AALL Spectrum, Vol. 3, No. 8, May 1999. (somewhat slowly downloads the entire issue as a PDF document).

"The Law School Consortium: Supporting Graduates in Small Firms to Serve Their Communities" by Holly Hartstone, NALP Bulletin, April 1999.

"Valley Lawyer Links Colleagues with Those Who Need Them," by Susan Ruiz Patton, Morning Call, March 11, 1999.

"With $2M from George Soros, CUNY Helps Community Lawyers," by Victoria Rivkin National Law Journal, Monday, March 29, 1999.

"New Methods for Delivery of Legal Services to the Undeserved," by Dennis J. Murphy, Maryland Bar Journal, March/April 1999.

"Soros Group Funds Mentoring Program"  by Victoria Rivkin, New York Law Journal March 4, 1999.

 "Bringing Attorneys, The Needy Together: $350,000 Soros Grant Allows UM to Start Test,"  by Kate Shatzkin, Baltimore Sun, February 12, 1999.

"NU Legal Project Seeks to Help Urban Small Business," Boston Business Journal, Febuary 8, 1999.

"Community Legal Resource Network," Trends in Law Library Management and Technology, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1999.

1998

"Director Selected at CUNY Law to Manage Graduate Support Network," CUNY Law Connection, Winter 1998.