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Law Practice

May 11, 2011

Nonprofits Feel Crush of Consumer Cases

The worst of the economic crisis may have passed, but legal nonprofits are still struggling under a rash of foreclosures, bankruptcies and other consumer cases as big firms sideline themselves because of conflicts.


By Ben Adlin


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The worst of the economic crisis may have passed, but legal nonprofits are still struggling under a rash of foreclosures, bankruptcies and other consumer cases.


Frustrating the massive caseload is the fact that many big law firms, which provide the bulk of volunteer work to legal nonprofts, are conflicted out of consumer cases because financial services companies are their clients. The situation (some n...

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