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An LSC attorney speaks on behalf of a private, indigent client in a welfare benefits claim, while the Government's message is delivered by the attorney defending the benefits decision.
Immigration also has increased federal spending for the indigent elderly and disabled under the Supplemental Security Income Program.
D. Miller, Jr., of Legal Services of New Jersey; Jonathan Ross ofthe American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants; Faith Rivers of the South Carolina Bar Association; and Jeanne Charn, director of Clinical Legal Education at Harvard Law School.
The sites, www.illinoislegalaid.org and www.illinoisprobono.org, include a list of more than 90 state agencies, most of which provide direct legal services to indigent clients.
Nowadays, a poverty lawyer working for one of New York's many agencies representing the indigent - including Legal Aid, the South Brooklyn Legal Services, the Lawyers Alliance for New York, InMotion, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Volunteers of Legal Service, the Bronx Defenders and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest - might begin his or her career at $32,000 per annum, compared with the $125,000 average first-year associate salary at the city's larger firms.