New Jersey’s principal provider of legal counsel for the poor in civil cases is claiming destitution — its own, that is — as traditional sources of funding dry up due to the recession.
Legal Services of New Jersey says its main stream of revenue — interest on lawyers’ trust accounts — is slowing to a trickle: from $40 million in the last fiscal year, to $12.4 million in the current one, to a projected $3 million in the next one, which begins July 1.
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