Equal Justice Magazine - Summer 2002 - Vol. 1


	EJM is the country’s only feature magazine dedicated exclusively to exploring equal justice issues and the work of public interest lawyers. EJM tells the untold stories of courageous clients and intrepid attorneys who turn shallow lawyer stereotypes on their head. The publication is produced by the Washington D.C.-based Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the congressionally chartered nonprofit organization created to ensure that poor Americans have their day in court.
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Touch Screen Justice
With no end in sight to the resource crisis preventing millions of Americans from having their rightful day in court, Legal Aid Society of Orange County turns to a ground breaking experiment with computer self-help terminals that just may revolutionize access to the civil justice system.

By Eric Kleiman

Prime Time for Legal Services
CBS' "The Guardian," television's highest-rated new drama this season, is a gritty new lawyer series based on the everyday work of children's advocates in Pittsburgh. The surprising secret to the show's success? Forgoing Hollywood's serial happy endings for knotty resolutions true to real life.

By Daniel Cox

The Guardian's Angel

Pittsburgh children's advocate inspires TV's biggest new hit.

People's Lawyer Goes To Washington
Decades before U.S. Representative Diaz-Balart (R-FL) was one America's most influential Hispanic Lawmakers, he was battling slumlords as a staff attorney with Legal Services of Greater Miami. He discusses the job that launched his political star in this issue's EQUAL JUSTICE Q&A.

By Catherine Sulzer

Rescued From the Debris
The floor began to shake, and the immigrant housekeeper in Manhattan's Millennium hotel ran to the elevators where she found people in hysterics. The first plane had struck the World Trade Center. For Yakara Ponce, the hell of September 1 was followed by a second devastating blow: a pink slip. So like thousands of other indirect victims of the terrorist attacks, she looked to her local legal services program for help-and she found it.

By Stacey Freed

Pleading For Forgiveness
Some of America's brightest law students are abandoning their passion for public interest law because sky-high debt and dirt-low salaries don't add up. Convincing lawmakers and law schools to change the rules on loan forgiveness is Job One for the American Bar Association in 2002.

By Eric Kleiman & Sara McPherson