As deferred associates head to big-firm offices to collect six figures, review documents, and learn the art of due diligence, Bar Talk checked in with the public interest organizations that benefited from their free labor last year. The deferred, it turns out, are dearly missed.
“I got four free lawyers for an entire year. That’s amazing to me,” says Chicago Volunteer Legal Services executive director Margaret Benson. CVLS took one deferred associate each from Latham & Watkins and Goodwin Procter, and two from Sidley Austin. Benson says the four were assigned to bankruptcy, landlord/tenant, and family law matters for CVLS’s low-income clients, and spent the year “really learning to cut through the crap that the client gives you and learning what the hell a case is about.”
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