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October 14, 2009 -- ABA Journal's Legal Rebels | 
Luz Herrera: ‘Low Bono’ PioneerPROFILE POSTED OCT 14, 2009, 01:55 PM CDT BY STEPHANIE FRANCIS WARD Federally funded legal aid is free, and that needs to change, says Luz E. Herrera, a Harvard Law grad who focuses on access-to-justice issues for low- and moderate-income people. She allows that those with incomes at the bottom of federal poverty guidelines often can’t afford to pay anything and shouldn’t have to. And for some issues, like domestic violence, she says there should never be a fee. But Herrera believes that in many practice areas, clients would appreciate the choices they’d get by paying something—and that it’s patronizing to assume they can pay nothing. * * * See the entire profile at http://www.legalrebels.com/posts/luz_herrera
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June 2, 2009 LA Times |
Latina lawyer learned law at Harvard, gains wisdom in Compton
March 10, 2009 L A Times |
Another sign of tough times: legal aid for the middle class See the full article at http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/10/local/me-legal-aid10 |
April 29, 2009 Daily Journal |
APRIL 29, 2009 | LAW PRACTICE
As an associate at O'Melveny & Myers, Anthony Arnold tracked the legal blogs. He had read that Latham & Watkins laid off 440 people on a bleak Friday morning. So he was prepared on the following Tuesday in early March, when an O'Melveny representative broke the news to Arnold that he would be let go from the firm. (Excerpt. For the entire article, contact the Daily Journal.) March 3, 2009 The Daily Journal |
by Martin Berg (Excerpt. For the entire article, contact the Daily Journal.) Banks turning into zombies, markets careening in free fall, law firms discarding lawyers, nonprofits pummeled, fear and gloom everywhere.
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