Stars of sports and civil rights gathered in an Atlanta high school to promote the needs of legal aid.
Home run champ Hank Aaron, Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh and former UN Ambassador Andrew Young are members of a new “Leaders Council” of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the independent, federal funding arm for 134 local legal aid organizations across the country. Wendy Rhein, the chief development officer of the LSC, said that at least 50 percent of people coming to local legal aid organizations get turned away because the aid groups don’t have the resources to serve them. She noted that these potential clients are dealing with, among other things, domestic violence, veterans’ problems and unwarranted foreclosures.
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