Each year since Hurricane Katrina inundated the Gulf Coast in 2005, about 60 students from Touro Law Center have spent winter or spring breaks in Louisiana and Mississippi performing pro bono legal work for residents who are still trying to recover from the disaster.
Now, however, Thomas Maligno, executive director of Touro’s public advocacy center, is wondering how the students’ “really wonderful work” will be affected by a new requirement that will make pro bono service a prerequisite for admission to New York’s bar.
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