New York City’s 18-B lawyers have reached into their own pockets to raise nearly $100,000 to battle Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s plan to give much of their work to institutional providers, such as the Legal Aid Society.
Also, a joint resolution issued by five county bar associations last week raised legal issues that could provide ammunition to 18-B lawyers should they sue to block the plan and raised the possibility that the bar groups themselves might sue.
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