News Scrapbook 1988

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Ii~~ Light~Up~{. Documentation Firms Asked to Give for Legal Aid Grants ~£ab Hundreds of farm Some also were asked to provide notarized fo~i~ITctoin~!s~~!:;o~~~.mg~ 0 N:Jo~ ~:11 0 :;s.in 1989 for public interest law workers in San Diego and Imperial counties affidavits listing the names of all firms and Association for Public Interest Law and its The organization is asking firms to provide were mistakenly told to submit more documen- individuals who bought their employers' pro- affiliates at more than 40 law schools are ask- annual grant'> varying in amount depending on tation than they need to support their federal duce during the yearlong eligibilityperiod, and ing the nation's top law firms to join them in firm size. For instance, for every five summer amnesty applications, immigration officials names ofsheds where the produce was packed. raising funds to provide legal assistance to the associates himd by a law firm, NAPIL asks it said. The INS began sending out notices of the poor. to contribute $1,000, up to a total of $10,000. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization corrected documentation requirements after NAPIL, a coalition of student-funded fellow- "A firm with 25 summer associates would Service has begun notifying affected appli- immigrant rights advocates complained.' ship programs founded in 1986, this month has provide $5,000, less than most firms pay one cants in letters outlining the scaled-down docu- "We made a mistake, and we're correcting challenged 300 law firms, including 40 in Cali- student for a 10-week summer," a three-page mentation that must be submitted under the it," Rogers said. fornia, to match donations to the program from letter sent to the law firms from NAPIL reads. f~ei:aJ ~en leg~tionpro~. INS deputy Advocates throughout California, which has their summer associates. · "Since NAPIL will cover the administrative district director Clifton Rogers said~~ week. the largest number of amnesty applicants of Last year, students at more than three dozen costs oft!::e program, eyery cent contributed to UndOCll?;lented farm wo~kers ~e eligible for any state, contend INS officials are concentrat- ABA-accredited, NAPIL-member schools con- the Public Servi::e Challenge will go directly to amnesty u they worked With penshable crops ing on eliminating fraud in the farm worker tributed more than $600,000 of their own money projects providing legal services to those in for at least 90 days b~tween May ~9'7: and ~fay amnesty program that they are disqualifying to create summer trainingjobs in public inter- need." · 19~6. 'l'h~f are reqllll"e~ to subrmt sufliCI:nt some legitimate applicants and discouraging est law ~d to provide seed money to launch The drive is being aided by leaders of the evidence to show their employment dunng many others new proJects. American Bar Association. that time "as a matter of just and reasonable · The money was raised by encouraging stu- In an Oct. 21 lettet" P.obert MacCrate imme- inference" under the law. "The position of the INS seems to be that den_ts at the schools to contribu~ a fraction of diate past president. ~f the ABA and an ~dviser Applicants in San Diego and Imperial coun- anyone who waited this long to apply has got to the~ summer or annl.!al eart11;11gs to enable to the project, 1mcourages attorneys to do their ties, however, were directed by the INS to pro- be using fraud," said Christine Brigagliano, an their J?eers to work for the vanous non-profit share to help the poor and disadvantaged. vide the names of every laborer who worked attorney with the California Rural Legal Aid agenCies. Last yeSI:, . students funded more . "The Public Service Ch3llenge provides an for the same labor contractor they did during Foundation, a San Francisco-based advocacy 300 summer positions and full-year fellow- .extremely effective way for firms to give Cl)n- the eligibility period and the exact number of group which operates a telephone hot line for ships under the program. crete meaning to our own public service com- days the applicant worked. such complaints. . . • mitment. Our example will encourage students • --~ Cal!forma law sch~ols ~tare N~IL 11_1em- to expand their efforts and to make public ser- bers 1Dclude the U1:1vers1ties of Califorrua at vice an integr-dl part of their profess!onal Davis and Los Angeles, the university's Has- lives " Macerate wrote. tilJgs Col!ege of th11 Law, USC, th~ Uajyersjty ~ong the firms a!;·mlycontrihuting to the of,~1ego and Santa Claca Ucmecs1ty challenge are Arnoid & Forter; Kutak, Rock & Despite our success, we are unable to meet Campbell and Sulli'van & Cromwell the growi?g ~emand for ~din_g fro~ st1!den~ "These three firms are only the b~ginning,"

San Diego, CA \San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 123,064) NI V 7

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~., 188~ oreros get set for some action tonight Tr,b11M Staff Report q 7S Means and Efrem Leonard, and jun- The USD b ketba I team will play ior guard/forward Craig Cottrell. an 1 110n game tonight at 7:30 ~IA _is five games into schedule against Athletes in Action at the USD which includes 25 games m Novem- Sports Center. ber. Among the team's members are The Toreros will feature one of former Aztecs guard Anthony Wat- college basketball's youngest teams son and forward Zack Jones and for- this se on with seven freshman and mer UCLA guard Rod Foster. five sophomores on their 15-man The Toreros open the 1988-89 sea- rost<'r, The only uppercla men on son Nov. 26 at the University of New the roster are senior guard Danny Mexico tournament.

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and public 1Dterest orgaruzati?ns, . said Mi- said Myra Nakelsky, a student from Hastings chael Ca~de~•Feagan, fl?'ecutive_director of and vice-president of NAPIL. "Our goal is to the organization, based ID Washington, D.C. raise at least one-half million dollars from "The Public Service Challenge is designed to firms before Feb. 1." · create new opportunities by providing a way ' NAPIL supervises 42 local chapters at for firms ~o reach ~to law schoo~ and d:m~~- schools across the country. Each chapter asks strate their C?I?ID1~ent to pub~c sel'Vlce. students to tithe l percent of their summer 'l'.h~ fu_nd rais~g drive began With 3? ~ct. 28 :arnings toward grants for students interested solic1tatlon mailing sent to the nation s 300 ID public interest work. largest law firms. A follow-up mailing target- Among the 42 lawschools participating in the ing another 250 ~s nationwide is slated for NAPIL program are Harvard, the University late January, S3.ld Fe:igan. of Chicago, Duke University, Georgetown the NAPIL hopes that if law firms match the University of Michigan the University of'Vll'- donations ofstudents, more than $1 million will ginia and Boston Univ~rsity.

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